Crash Course

Crash Course

Tom Bradman

Tom Bradman

Life can be pretty tough when you're stuck on a spaceship because pollution has destroyed Planet Earth. Especially when your mum is the stressed-out captain, and your grades are slipping at school. But Luke's boring world is about to change when he accidentally gives a dangerous virus to the spaceship's mainframe, sending the ship hurtling unstoppably towards a radioactive moon. Whoops! Can Luke and his friends stop the ship from crashing and killing them all?
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Ice Breaker

Ice Breaker

Tom Bradman

Tom Bradman

When the spaceship colony Buzz Aldrin spots an ice planet, although it's no good for long-term habitation, it is a great place for a winter holiday! Armed with skis, snowboards and sledges, the children are taken for a fun-filled field trip, which quickly turns to disaster when an avalanche strikes. Luke, Yuri and Yasmin think that being trapped in an ice cave is bad enough, but then discover that actually they're inside the mouth of an enormous alien creature! Will the trio of young adventurers ever manage to escape? Or will they become the human equivalent of a frozen TV dinner?
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Bug Wars

Bug Wars

Tom Bradman

Tom Bradman

Trapped on a colony spaceship ever since Planet Earth became too polluted to support human life, Luke whiles away his time playing computer games, just like any normal boy. But when an alien battleship arrives demanding that Luke comes aboard, it seems that his computer-whizz gaming skills have been mistaken for genuine warfare! The aliens are determined to wipe out their enemies, and Luke either has to help defeat them, or die! Does Luke have the skill it takes to beat the bugs and survive?
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Titanic

Titanic

Tom Bradman

Tom Bradman

Fascinating fictional retelling of the events that led to the tragedy of the Titanic, based on documents from the National Archives.A boy works in the dockyard where the Titanic is being built, then gets a job on the ship. As he witnesses a series of mistakes, short-cuts and bad decisions, he becomes more and more worried about what could happen. But he's preoccupied by his rivalry with a fellow ship's boy and doesn't realise the full scale of what's happening until it's too late...
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Blast Off!

Blast Off!

Tom Bradman

Tom Bradman

Luke, Yasmin and Yuri have been stuck on the Buzz Aldrin spaceship for so long that they can barely remember what living on polluted planet earth was like! So when the colony finally finds an earth-like planet that seems safe to land on, they can't believe their luck. But when the trio of friends accidentally stumble across an abandoned alien city, tripping the planet's self-destruct system in the process, it seems that all their dreams of leaving life in space behind are about to go out with a bang. Can they save the planet, or at least save themselves, before blast off?
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