Grace Needs Space!
(A Graphic Novel)
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
To the moon and back! A sci-fi middle-grade graphic novel about a young girl's long-awaited summer trip across space with one of her moms. But when her relationship with her mom goes sideways, so does her trip. Will Grace be able to save her summer vacation before it ends?
Grace is SO EXCITED to fly a freighter from her home space station (and away from her BORING mother Evelyn) to a faraway moon! Plus, she’ll get some quality time with her FUN mom Kendra—something Grace definitely needs. Finally, a real adventure that Grace can get excited about while the rest of her space station friends go away for their summer vacations.
But when Kendra is too focused on work, Grace’s first big trip suddenly becomes kind of lonely. Grace had so many plans for fun. But all it takes is one quick decision to explore the moon by herself before Grace’s adventure suddenly becomes not so out of this world at all. With her mom mad at her, Grace wants nothing more than to return home. Then their ship breaks down. Will Grace be able to get through to her mom and save their trip in the end?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A 12-year-old discovers that even navigating the vastness of space is not as complicated as maneuvering conflicts surrounding family and friendship in this lushly illustrated adventure graphic novel. Grace, a child of divorced parents, is excited to spend time away from her mother, the chief engineer on Genova Station, with her other mother, Ba, a freighter captain who frequently travels to Titan, one of Saturn's moons. While Grace was expecting to embark on epic adventures with Ba, she finds, instead, that Ba is too busy working to pay her any mind, much like Mom back on Genova. Grace soon befriends a group of students while exploring Titan and accompanies them on educational field trips, but when an incident results in her being left behind during an excursion, she feels as if she's drifting even further from her parents. Through touching and natural-feeling dialogue, portrayed via saturated, full-color illustrations, Wilgus (Chronin) and Abrego (Sprite and the Gardener) skillfully highlight the enormity of the interstellar setting alongside Grace's intimate personal realizations. Though the story takes place among the cosmos, the earthly truths surrounding love and connection proves artfully rendered. Grace and Mom are depicted with brown skin; Ba has pale skin. Ages 8–12.
