Star Power #2 (Astronaut Girl, Band 2) - Softcover

Buch 2 von 4: Astronaut Girl

Hapka, Cathy; Vandenberg, Ellen

 
9780593095744: Star Power #2 (Astronaut Girl, Band 2)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 059309574X ISBN 13: 9780593095744
Verlag: Penguin Workshop, 2021

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Can Astronaut Girl save the day with a little help from science? Find out as she and her space crew blast off on new adventures in this chapter book series!

Everyone knows that humans can't travel to the sun...at least that's true in the year 2020. But when Astronaut Girl, Wallace, and the Astro crew find themselves orbiting the sun in a solar probe, they soon discover that they've gone almost one thousand years into the future! As they are zipping through space, the heat shields on their spacecraft come loose. They must find a way to fix it and get back to Earth in time for Wallace's family barbecue and before their probe gets baked like a potato!

Exciting, easy-to-read books are the stepping stone a young reader needs to bridge the gap between being a beginner and being fluent.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Cathy Hapka (she/her) has written more than one hundred books for children and young adults. She lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Ellen Vandenberg (she/her) is the author of numerous books for young readers. She lives in New York City.

Gillian Reid (she/her) is a British illustrator, character designer and teacher, She lives in Ontario, Canada.

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Chapter 1: Rainy Day
 
“Look, Val.” Wallace held up his notebook. “What do you think?”
 
I was watching the rain come down in Wallace’s front yard. I looked at his notebook. There was a weird drawing in it.
 
“What is that thing?” I asked.
 
“It’s a heat blaster,” Wallace said. He pointed to the homemade action figure sitting on the porch swing. “Zixtar could use this to fight the ice aliens.”
 
“It looks like a flying hot dog,” I said. “What’s the power source? Ketchup?”
 
My stomach grumbled. Hot dogs and ketchup made me think about the barbecue happening soon. All of Wallace’s relatives were coming, and the whole neighborhood was invited, too. I couldn’t wait. I just hoped it stopped raining by then.
 
“Whatever,” Wallace muttered. “I’m just saying we need to figure something out, or the earth will be a giant snowball forever.”
 
I shrugged. “We can figure it out after the barbecue.”
 
He looked unhappy. I wasn’t surprised. Wallace was obsessed with the TV show Comet Jumpers. He was even entering a contest to write an episode for the show! Zixtar was a new character he’d created. That’s what Wallace told me when he moved here last week. He doesn’t know much about science or outer space, but lucky for him, I do! That’s why everyone calls me Astronaut Girl. And it’s why I offered to be his partner to write the script.
 
“Hey, Walla Walla!” someone shouted.
 
A car had just stopped in front of the house. “Who’s that?” I asked. I couldn’t wait to meet all of Wallace’s relatives.
 
“It’s Aunt Celia, Uncle Walt, and my cousins Kayla and Dwayne.” Wallace still sounded grumpy. I wondered if he was worried about the barbecue being rained out. I wasn’t worried, though. His gramps already said he would move the grill onto the back porch if he had to.
 
The adults waved and went inside. Dwayne and Kayla stayed on the porch. They were a few years older than us.
 
“Hi, I’m Val,” I said. “I live next door. I’m Wallace’s writing partner.”
 
Dwayne grinned. “Writing partner, huh?” he said, and elbowed Wallace. “Is she going to help you not embarrass yourself at the family storytelling contest today?”
 
Dwayne and Kayla laughed. Wallace didn’t.
 
“Storytelling contest?” I said. “What’s that?”
 
They told me they had a family tradition. When everyone got together, they ended the gathering by holding a contest. Anyone who wanted to could tell a story, and everyone voted on the best one.
 
“I won at Easter dinner,” Dwayne said. He held up the big fancy medal that hung from his neck. “I told the story about how I found a lost puppy when I was mountain biking. Everyone loved it.”
 
Kayla nodded. “And at Thanksgiving, Aunt Kim won with this wild tall tale about a haunted henhouse. We couldn’t stop laughing!”
 
I laughed, too. “That sounds fun!”
 
Wallace wasn’t laughing. “Everyone else will be here soon,” he said. “I should go see if Gramps needs help with the grill.” He stomped off into the house.
 
“Oops, that reminds me,” I told Dwayne and Kayla. “I promised Mom and Daddy I’d help with the potato salad. See you soon!”
 
I ran home through the rain. Mom and Daddy were in the kitchen. Mom was scrubbing the potatoes, and Daddy was mixing herbs into the mayonnaise. The Baby was helping by tossing Cheerios at Astro Cat.
 
“Hi, Val,” Daddy said. “You’re just in time to peel the eggs.”
 
I washed my hands and got to work. “I hope the sun comes out soon,” I said. “Wallace seems kind of grumpy about the rain.”
 
Mom looked surprised. “Really?” she said. “Wallace doesn’t seem like the grumpy type.”
 
The Baby giggled and tossed a handful of Cheerios at Daddy. A few landed in the mayonnaise bowl.
 
“That’s not part of the recipe!” Daddy exclaimed with a laugh.
 
Suddenly the door flew open. Wallace rushed in.
 
“I just had a great idea for the script!” he cried. “We need to discuss it right now!”
 
 
 
Chapter 2: Lab Work
 
“Now?” I said. “But the barbecue is starting soon.”
 
I looked out the window. More cars were parked in front of Wallace’s house. People were hurrying inside.
 
Daddy looked outside, too. “The sun’s coming out just in time!”
 
“The sun is what we need to talk about, Val!” Wallace exclaimed. “I just remembered an idea that my friend Carlos from back home had. He said Zixtar could hide from the ice aliens on the sun. While he’s there, he can use the heat to power his blaster ray!”
 
I burst out laughing. Astro Cat stared at me in surprise.
 
“You have to be kidding,” I told Wallace. “Nobody can survive on the sun!”
 
“Well, we have to think of something!” Wallace said. “The deadline for the contest is only a couple of weeks away!”
 
Daddy winked at me. “We can finish up the potato salad without you. You and Wallace might need to review some data down in your lab.”
 
Daddy always talks like that. He’s an astrophysicist. That’s a scientist who studies outer space, like I do.
 
“I guess you’re right. Come on, Wallace,” I said.
 
“Hang on,” Mom said. She picked up the Baby and handed him to me. “Take him with you, or there will be more Cheerios than potatoes in the salad.”
 
I took the Baby and led Wallace to the basement. Astro Cat tagged along.
 
My lab has everything a scientist like me needs. There’s a table where I draw blueprints and a whiteboard for making calculations. I have tools to build stuff and lots of cabinets and drawers. Everything is labeled with my state-of-the-art label maker. Some of my projects are on display, like my mobile of the solar system that won a prize in the science fair.
 
The Baby uses part of my lab as a playroom. I put him in his playpen with the stuffed rocket ship I gave him.
 
Wallace sat down on a stool. “So what about Carlos’s idea? I think it’s great.”
 
“Great? ” I said. “No way. It’s a good thing I’m your writing partner now instead of Carlos.”
 
Wallace scowled. “Don’t insult my friend.”
 
“I’m not insulting anyone,” I said. “Facts are facts. And a star like the sun is the last place someone would hide out. For one thing, the surface temperature is almost ten thousand degrees Fahrenheit, and—”
 
“Wait,” Wallace interrupted. “If nobody can go to the sun, how do they know how hot it is?”
 
I sighed. As Daddy always says, not everybody knows as much about science and outer space as we do!
 
“One way is to use a solar probe,” I said. “That’s a spacecraft...

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Verlag
Penguin Workshop
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
059309574X
ISBN 13 
9780593095744
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