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Astronaut Academy: Splashdown
Series: Astronaut Academy
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This vibrant and action-packed graphic novel is ideal for children who enjoy adventurous stories with diverse characters and science-fiction settings.
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Heroes like Hakata Soy don't take vacation!
It's summer vacation for the students of Astronaut Academy, and Maribelle Mellonbelly is throwing the best party ever on Beach Planet? Yes! But tensions heat up fast when Hakata Soy's arch rival, Rick Raven, arrives. And soon the whole planet is heating up-with a giant volcano threatening to blow its top!
Unless they can work together to save the planet, the students of Astronaut Academy will be toast. But can they put aside their differences in time to turn the tides?
Splashdown is at long last the highly-anticipated new volume in the enduring and beloved Astronaut Academy series-for which we are reissuing volumes 1 and 2 in stunning full color.
Series: Astronaut Academy
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Astronaut Academy: Re-entry
Hakata Soy still has a lot to learn! It's a new semester at Astronaut Academy and everyone is excited for the Fireball championship-especially Hakata's cranky roommate, Tak Offsky. But lurking in the shadows is a shape-shifting, heart-stealing monster, and it might just knock the Fireball team out of the competition! Can Hakata and Tak put aside their differences, lead the...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Astronaut Academy: Splashdown
Heroes like Hakata Soy don't take vacation! It's summer vacation for the students of Astronaut Academy, and Maribelle Mellonbelly is throwing the best party ever on Beach Planet? Yes! But tensions heat up fast when Hakata Soy's arch rival, Rick Raven, arrives. And soon the whole planet is heating up-with a giant volcano threatening to blow its top! Unless they...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Astronaut Academy: Zero Gravity
Hakata Soy's past won't stay in the past! This former space hero is doing his best to keep his head down at Astronaut Academy. Things aren't going so great, though. The most popular girl in school has it in for him. His best friend won't return his calls. And his new roommate is a complete jock who only cares about...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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Kirkus praises the book's diverse and endearing characters, describing them as "adorable, like hastily drawn Hello Kitty figures, but taken from a broad array of cultural origins," highlighted by a bright and vibrant colour palette.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781250216861
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 April 2021
Country: United States
Imprint: First Second
Illustration: full-color illustrations throughout
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 13.0mm
Width: 144.0mm
Height: 209.0mm
Weight: 337g
Pages: 192
About the Author
Dave Roman is the author/illustrator of the Astronaut Academy series and writer of the graphic novels Teen Boat! Race for Boatlantis and Agnes Quill: An Anthology of Mystery. He has contributed stories and art to Goosebumps Graphix: Slappy's Tales of Horror and Nursery Rhyme Comics. Roman is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts, a former editor at Nickelodeon Magazine and is currently series editor for First Second's Science Comics. He lives in NYC and draws a webcomic called Starbunny, Inc.
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