image of person or book cover 6352227464947168920.jpeg
Image courtesy of publisher's website.
y separately published work icon Galactic Adventures : First Kids in Space single work   children's fiction   children's   science fiction  
Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 Galactic Adventures : First Kids in Space
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'Dash Campbell has only ever had one dream. To go to space. Now he and four others have been given the chance to become the first kids ever to leave our planet. From building rockets behind his family's laundromat in Australia to attending a hardcore Space School in the US, Dash is a long way from home. And he still has an intense month of training ahead before he can even think about that glorious moment of blasting out of Earth's atmosphere and living his dream.

But does Dash have what it takes to survive Space School? Gruelling physicals, fierce competition, media attention, medicals, the Vomit Comet, a skydive from 4000 metres and an instructor who despises him. Can he push through his deepest fears and make history? Does he have the right stuff to go to space?' (Publisher's blurb)

Reading Australia

Reading Australia

This work has Reading Australia teaching resources.

Teachers' notes via publisher's website.

Notes

  • Dedication:
    For Hux and Luca.
    Dream big.
  • Epigraph:

    'A bit of advice given to a young Native American
    at the time of his initiation:
    "As you go the way of life,
    you will see a great chasm.
    Jump.
    It's not as wide as you think."'
    -Joseph Campbell
    A Joseph Campbell Companion

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • St Lucia, Indooroopilly - St Lucia area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,: University of Queensland Press , 2011 .
      image of person or book cover 6352227464947168920.jpeg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: vii, 208 pp.
      Note/s:
      • Published 31/05/2011

      ISBN: 9780702238697 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

Review : Galactic Adventures : First Kids in Space John Nolan , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of The Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 56 no. 1 2012; (p. 27-28)

— Review of Galactic Adventures : First Kids in Space Tristan Bancks , 2011 single work children's fiction
Review : Galactic Adventures : First Kids in Space Jo Burnell , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Buzz Words , September 2011;

— Review of Galactic Adventures : First Kids in Space Tristan Bancks , 2011 single work children's fiction
Review : Galactic Adventures : First Kids in Space James Paull , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , June vol. 90 no. 9 2011; (p. 15)

— Review of Galactic Adventures : First Kids in Space Tristan Bancks , 2011 single work children's fiction
Take-Off James Paull , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , June vol. 90 no. 9 2011; (p. 8)
Review : Galactic Adventures : First Kids in Space James Paull , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , June vol. 90 no. 9 2011; (p. 15)

— Review of Galactic Adventures : First Kids in Space Tristan Bancks , 2011 single work children's fiction
Review : Galactic Adventures : First Kids in Space John Nolan , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of The Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 56 no. 1 2012; (p. 27-28)

— Review of Galactic Adventures : First Kids in Space Tristan Bancks , 2011 single work children's fiction
Review : Galactic Adventures : First Kids in Space Jo Burnell , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Buzz Words , September 2011;

— Review of Galactic Adventures : First Kids in Space Tristan Bancks , 2011 single work children's fiction
Take-Off James Paull , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , June vol. 90 no. 9 2011; (p. 8)
Last amended 23 Apr 2020 14:19:03
Settings:
  • Sydney, New South Wales,
  • Nevada,
    c
    United States of America (USA),
    c
    Americas,
Newspapers:
    Powered by Trove
    X