Written by Sophia McDougall
Alice Dare gets yanked out of boarding school and shipped off to Mars as a refugee during a war with aliens. Unfortunately, she finds more danger on Mars than on the besieged Earth. When all the adults at the evacuation center vanish, she, a couple other kids, and a flying-goldfish-teaching-robot set off across the planet on a quest for survival.
The kids are faced with grown-up sized problems and invent clever and humorous ways to solve them.
Fun, middle-grade sci-fi books like this me happy.
The adventures continue in Space Hostages.
Cover Art by Goro Fujita