Space For Children

Scholastic's best-selling Old Lady returns in this adventure series with a nonfiction twist that will make you laugh and learn! In this spin-off, the Old Lady turns into an Old Astronaut who travels through space, swallowing a moon...along with a star, a planet, a comet, a meteor, a rocket, and a satellite.... Why? Well, it went down just right, that bright satellite!

After Garryn returns to claim the throne of his home world, he finds himself plagued by dreams of a mysterious star system with a yellow sun. Consulting a mentalist for help, Garryn learns he is not the only one with the same dreams. With a new friend, he sets out on a quest to understand his visions.

No child should ever be a soldier. Jon Moore knew that better than most, having learned to fight to survive before he’d hit puberty. So when a former comrade, Alissa Lim, asks for his help in rescuing a group of children pressed into service by rebels on a planet no one cares to save, he agrees. Only later does he realize he’s signed up to do far more than he’d ever imagined.

Welcome to a world controlled by the great spirit and science Margas, a world that has crawled out of years of devastating viral plagues only to find that the immuno-nanotech sentinels meant to protect and enhance a whole generation of children are rising from within to become an even greater threat. Warped at the genetic level to mimic characters of a sophisticated life-support game, the Children of the Reckoning must struggle against the artificial intelligence reaching for their minds through their own bodies and face the stigma of "otherness" in a world of deadly political intrigue and strict social controls.

Written by a popular middle-grade author, this heartfelt and important treatment of anxiety and depression centers on a 10-year-old boy who begins to handle his grief after his mother disappears by creating a fantasy narrative of where she’s gone, with the help of a kindly neighbor who survived separation from her father during World War II.

Will's mom and dad promise him a surprise for getting good grades in school. When his dad brings home a toy transformer robot named Planetron, Will is pleased, but not very excited. Until he discovers Planetron really transforms, from a toy into a huge, faster-than-light spaceship.

The Space Zoo Patrol is an elite team of animals that live and work in a massive space station above the Earth, called the Space Zoo 1. The Space Zoo Patrol is a wildly fun group that solves problems, invents cool technical gizmos, and occasionally saves the Earth by using science. NASA meets MacGyver meets the National Zoo!

When a routine transport mission goes wrong, Captain Kai Brecken and her ragtag crew have to fight for their lives. Murderous aliens and crooked Alliance soldiers aren't going to get in her way, but her conscience might. When they stumble upon an age-old secret, Kai and the crew must choose between saving themselves and re-igniting a war with grave consequences.

Zero Adedji dreams of joining one of the Saba guilds—groups of intergalactic travelers who explore space, retrieve lost treasures, and hunt down criminals. Instead, he must scrape by as a guide to travelers stranded on his home planet of Anansi 12. Then he meets Wanderblatch, a strange creature with an even stranger object: a golden pyramid that houses a legendary Kobasticker called the Jupiter. When the Jupiter chooses Zero as its next host, he is recruited by a top Saba guild so he can harness his newfound powers.

Victoriya lives within the Highly Functioning Autistic Spectrum. She is the daughter of principal scientists over the TITAN project, the massive orbital which finally ended global warming. It worked…but with consequences no one saw coming.

Our ancestors fled Earth, humanity's survivors absconding on the eve of a nuclear apocalypse. Their only hope of survival hinging on finding more of the ultra-rare element that makes faster-than-light travel possible. A quest that pulls them half a galaxy away. Three hundred years and nine generations later, humans have established themselves in their New Eden.

A near-term princess is betrayed in her battle to conquer the galactic core. Her unborn daughter Serena is taken from her body, raised in a foreign empire, and trained to be a lethal weapon. Twenty years later, multiple attempts are made on her life, but Serena will defy anyone who would use her toward their own ends.

The Safe Haven Reserve was supposed to be a place where the remaining tribes could live in peace. But the new head of the facility has turned it into a concentration camp. When Wynd and his classmates stumble across a band of the planet's displaced natives, Wynd gets ideas on how the tribes can escape the facility.

Elle thought her summer would be ordinary—until she wakes up on a spaceship with newfound magic and incredible physical abilities. Suddenly, the fate of the universe rests in her hands. A mysterious Darkness is spreading, consuming planets, including Elle's home. With her new powers, Elle joins a daring team on an interstellar quest to find ancient relics that could stop the Darkness.

Humans were forced to leave Earth when the pollution became a threat. Mankind could no longer live on the planet. They traveled 189 light years to their new home they named Horizon. When they left Earth they abandoned much and over the years they grew, developed, and matured. A long time in humanities' future they returned to Earth and found something else living there.

General Mikeal leads an exploratory mission and finds one of Earth's colony ships lost for more than 500 years on the other side of an unknown galaxy. Staff Sergeant Felina Vasquez and her fire team volunteers to accompany on the scouting mission. She can run across the universe, but she can't run away from her mind. Personal demons haunt her. The general and his scouts battle ferocious animals and hostile vegetation as they unwrap a horrific beginning to a new civilization.

It all comes down to this. While Marcus is visiting Iaka on Alpha 114, a message arrives from from Marcus’s adopted father, Vlad Valcor. He needs help and Marcus never says no to family. Soon he and Solomon are off to Pleasure Planet 4 and a meeting that will hopefully bring peace between Vlad’s organization and the Jade Dragon clan.

A space adventure from #1 Bestselling author James David Victor Mimic and Higgens have saved the shapeshifting alien race again and hope for nothing more than to settle down and enjoy life. Before that happens, there’s one more battle to fight. Can they turn back the alien horde one more time and find peace? Or are they destined to be ground into dust as so many before them?

The ancient Aris helped created nearly all advanced life in the galaxy. But they weren't alone. Now the long lost Children of the Aris have resurfaced, freed from their Quantum prison. And now, they're on a mission to reconstitute their race, supplanting all other life in the Milky Way. And to that end they need the mysterious Formation device. To get it, they've kidnapped the super mutants, Panur and Lila. Little do they know, Panur is no longer immortal and he will surely die if Adam Cain and his friends can't find him and Adam's daughter, Lila, in time.

Frank loves soccer, codes, riding his bike, and playing with his friends. His brother Max is five. Max only eats foods that are beige or white, hates baths, and if he has to wear a t-shirt that isn't gray with yellow stripes he melts down down down. Max is autistic and Frank longs for the brother he was promised by his parents before Max was born - someone who was supposed to be his biggest fan so he could be the best brother in the world. Instead, Frank has trouble navigating Max's behavior and their relationship.