Space Race by Malorie Blackman

Space Race by Malorie Blackman

Five...four...three...two...one. Lift-off! What can Lizzie do when big-headed Jake challenges her to a race in space? She's got to beat him. But Jake has a super-duper, deluxe new spaceship that runs on special fuel...You can zoom to Pluto and back with this super space story from award-winning author, Malorie Blackman. Colour First Readers are perfect for new readers and include notes by reading specialist Prue Goodwin, honorary fellow of the University of Reading.

Rewarding reading Teaching and Learning The pace is good, there is enough repetition of plot elements to keep readers in touch, and the setting is just different enough to be interesting The School Librarian

Malorie Blackman is acknowledged as one of today's most imaginative and convincing writers for young readers. The novels in her Noughts & Crosses sequence have won several awards, including the Children's Book Award, and she has won many other awards for her books for the Random House list. Both Hacker and Thief! won the Young Telegraph/Gimme 5 Award - Malorie is the only author to have won this award twice - while Hacker also won the WH Smith Mind-Boggling Books Award in 1994. Her work has appeared on screen, with Pig-Heart Boy, which was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, being adapted into a BAFTA-award-winning TV serial. Malorie has also written a number of titles for younger readers. In 2005, Malorie was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her distinguished contribution to the world of children's books. In 2008, she was then honoured with an OBE for her services to Children's Literature.

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ISBN 13	9780552568937
ISBN 10	0552568937
Title	Space Race
Author	Malorie Blackman
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Random House Children's UK
Year published	2014-02-27
Number of pages	80
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.