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The students are preparing a battle demonstration for the annual Space Spectacular show, but despite being chosen team leader John is depressed that his parents will not be there--but bigger problems loom when Mordant tries to sabotage his friendship with Emmie, and the school's battle droids go crazy.

When John Riley gets on the wrong bus he finds himself at Hyperspace High, an elite academy on an enormous spaceship, where his classmates are aliens, and the penalty for failing is harsh.

"When seventh grader Nicholas V. Landrew, his beloved pet gerbil Henrietta, and a package of ground beef are beamed aboard an alien space ship, they soon find themselves on the run in a madcap chase across the universe. Now all Nicholas wants to do is get back home before his parents find out and ground him forever, but with the Universal Police hot on his trail, that won't be easy. Before it's all over, Henrietta will find herself safely ensconced...

After an evil alien abducts Super Potato, the hero must escape from a collection of rare outer-space animals.

Twelve-year-old Amelia is the youngest member of crew on the Meddler, a spaceship that salvages scrap metal and anything else of value; currently they are interested in exploiting a debris field near the planet Canus, home to their cabin boy Greeny and his dog-like race, and Amelia is mad because her mother will not let her take part, so she and Greeny stow away on the salvage ship--but not everybody sees this particular debris as free-for-the-taking,...