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Zita’s life took a cosmic left turn in the blink of an eye. When her best friend is abducted by an alien doomsday cult, Zita leaps to the rescue and finds herself a stranger on a strange planet. Humanoid chickens and neurotic robots are shocking enough as new experiences go, but Zita is... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Zita: An adventurous young girl who follows her captured friend to an alien planet.
- Piper: A clever and mysterious gentleman who can entrance others by his musical and magical pipe, Piper lives on the planet on which Zita is transported to.
- Lynne Jonell: Lynne Jonell, the popular author of Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat, makes her Stepping Stones debut with a laugh-out-loud funny story of wayward wishes and mixed-up magic. Celia Willow is the baby of the family, and she’s sick of it—sick of being younger and smaller, and sick of never being taken seriously. So when Hammy, her hamster, magically starts talking and then offers to grant her a wish, Celia impulsively shouts one out. She wishes to be big. But Celia’s wish doesn’t turn out quite the way she wanted. Instead of being a big person, Celia becomes a big hamster. She wants to run all night and gnaw on things and make cozy burrows. Can her older brothers and sister, Abner, Derek, and Tate, figure out how to return Celia to normal . . . before their parents discover their daughter is a dog-sized furry rodent? From the Hardcover edition.
- Joseph: Zita's friend
- One: Prototype war robot.
- Five: Advanced war robot
- Eight: Advanced war robot
- Randy: Randy is a robot... That is rusty....
Quotes edit
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“To fix this sorta leak all you gotta do is tell it good news!”
Alien Plumber
Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 2 in Zita the Spacegirl. (standard series)
Followed by Legends of Zita the Spacegirl.
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: First Second
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: February 2010
ISBN: 9781596436954
Page Count: 192
Publisher: First Second
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: February 2010
ISBN: 9781596436954
Page Count: 192
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 741.5973
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