Astrokids 5 and 6

About -Face Space Race, The Cosmic Camp Caper

by Robert Elmer

Bethany House Publishers

11400 Hampshire Avenue South

1986 108pp 108pp Soft Cover

Both of these are definite reads for any old Astrokids fan and new alike. About-Face Space Race begins with "Tag" Orbitz pretending he’s Captain Cosmos, an amazing, although imaginary, space scooter racer. Everyone on Cleo-7 is excited about the upcoming space scooter race around Mars. Children from all the Cleo space stations are allowed to participate in this exciting event. Tag is hoping to be the pilot for at least one of the space scooters the Astrokids are planning to enter in the race, but. there are a few problems. DeeBee’s home-made scooter is nearly complete, but it needs a few vital parts that she can’t find and Mir’s incredible Mercury T-1 XL came "some assembly required." Will either racer be finished in time? Will Tag get to pilot it? Will the Astrokids win the grand prize 5 seat scooter? Read it and find out.

Now it’s off to Camp Little Dipper on the moon. Well, not the moon. A moon. One of Jupiter’s moons, Io. It was a disaster from the first time they saw the bus, and it kept getting worse. Between psycho councilors and Zero-G stowing away, can it get any worse? You’d better believe it can! I don’t want to spoil anymore, so read it for yourself. Both the books are great. Five stars each!

Lee Elliott