Book description
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...
Zoom to Pluto and back with this super space story from
award-winning author, Malorie Blackman.
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.
