5/23/2023 0 Comments A Toaster on Mars by Darrell Pitt![]() ![]() ‘Darrell Pitt has written a fast-paced and funny novel.’ ReadPlus ‘…a great new take on the “school-but-different” genre…the universe Pitt has crafted is imaginative and original.’ Reading Time CBCA If you know what I mean.’ĭarrell Pitt is the author of A Toaster on Mars, shortlisted for the Russell Prize for Humour Writing, and the Jack Mason Adventures, a series of five novels including The Firebird Mystery, a CBCA Notable Book. ‘But if they were thinking it…well…they’d be thinking it even more. Not that people are thinking Earth is backward and primitive,’ he hastened to add. ‘You may reject our offer,’ the hologram said. ![]() ‘It’s a mystery to me,’ the hologram assured him. ![]() ‘No child from Earth has ever been chosen to attend the Galactic Space Academy.’ The hologram’s eyes narrowed on Bobby. So when he learns that he’s the first Earthling ever chosen to attend the Galactic Space Academy, light years away from home, he’s terrified-and that’s before he discovers that someone at the academy wants the boy from Earth gone. ![]() His list of things that scare him is up to number 689, and includes lightning, crowds, spiders, alien abductions, crocodiles, falling from great heights, falling from small heights and eggs. Twelve-year-old Bobby Baxter’s not the bravest kid on Earth. ![]()
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