Exploring Space

Voyage to the Planets Mission Report

Far Planets (Discovering Space)

Are Aliens Real? (Unexplained: What's the Evidence?)

Lost: Book 2 of the Shipwreck Island Series (Shipwreck Island, 2)

Space Busters Space Travel

Find Me In Time: Meeting Columbus

Emergency Ops (Bloodlines)

Helium-3

A sixteen-year-old must battle his way across a thousand miles of deadly lunar terrain and face genetically altered super warriors in his quest to recover an astonishing object that will alter the lives of everyone on the moon . . . and beyond.It's the 22nd Century. A tough, pioneering people mine the moon produce energy for a desperate, war-torn Earth. Sixteen-year-old Crater Trueblood loves his job as a Helium-3 miner. But when he saves a fellow miner, his life changes forever. Impressed by his heroism, the owner of the mine orders Crater to undertake a dangerous mission. Crater doesn't think he can do it, but he has no choice. He must go.With the help of Maria, the mine owner's frustrating but gorgeous granddaughter, and his gillie—a sometimes insubordinate clump of slime mold cells—Crater must fight both human and subhuman enemies to complete his mission.New York Times bestselling author Homer Hickman (Rocket Boys) will take you on a hold-your-breath adventure across the moon, and you'll never look at the night sky the same way again.The first installment of the Helium-3 series Book #1: CraterBook #2: CrescentBook #3: Crater Trueblood and the Lunar Rescue CompanyBook length: 75,000 wordsIncludes discussion questions for book clubs.

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Exploring Space

Pat York, 2003

Voyage to the Planets Mission Report

Stephen Cole, Gemma Elwin Harris

Far Planets (Discovering Space)

Ian Graham, 2007

Are Aliens Real? (Unexplained: What's the Evidence?)

Patrick Perish, 2013

Lost: Book 2 of the Shipwreck Island Series (Shipwreck Island, 2)

S. A. Bodeen, 2015

Space Busters Space Travel

David Jefferis, Stuart Atkinson, 2003

Find Me In Time: Meeting Columbus

L.T. Caton, 2023

Emergency Ops (Bloodlines)

M. Zachary Sherman, 2012