George and the Blue Moon by Lucy Hawking & Stephen Hawking

George and the Blue Moon by Lucy Hawking & Stephen Hawking

Author:Lucy Hawking & Stephen Hawking [Hawking, Lucy & Hawking, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Action & Adventure, General, Science Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction, Technology, Aeronautics; Astronautics & Space Science
ISBN: 9781448174706
Google: 9eLaCgAAQBAJ
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2016-03-02T16:00:00+00:00


There was only one thing to do – run!

THE NEXT MORNING, the alarm went off incredibly early. Annie groaned and rolled over in her hammock. She felt shattered. The run back to the sleeping pod last night had been terrifying. Her pager had been flashing like crazy the whole way and she was convinced that she – or George – would get caught. But astonishingly, she made it back to the pod and let herself in to find Leonia still sound asleep and the drone camera still lying in the corridor like a dead fly.

Almost at the same time, her pager stopped beeping and flashing – clearly it must just have been some kind of exercise to see how quickly they could react to a sudden need for action. In that case, Annie thought, Leonia would have failed, for she had slept right through her pager.

Annie had flung on her space pyjamas before she slipped off the watch and picked the drone up from the floor. It came back to life and whizzed around the room a few times, registering that both girls were in their hammocks, but at least one of the pair was sitting upright in bed, ready for action in response to the pager; then a familiar red light flashed and the drone flew away again. Annie held her breath for what felt like for ever – but no one came to check further on them so she eventually fell asleep, figuring that somehow she and George had got away with it.

In the morning she still felt like she could sleep for ages. But Leonia was already up and dressed in her blue flightsuit, her long hair drawn back in a sleek ponytail, doing a set of warm-up stretches in preparation for the day ahead. Annie wished she could talk to Leonia about what she and George had seen last night. But she didn’t dare. She had no idea if she could trust Leonia – perhaps the other girl would report Annie straightaway to the authorities at Kosmodrome 2 and ruin her chances of ever finding out what was happening on Europa, or why her dad had been fired. Then a thought struck her. If Leonia told the staff about Annie sneaking out, Leonia herself could be on a one-way ticket home too! The other girl wouldn’t risk that . . .

‘What are we doing today?’ she mumbled sleepily.

‘How should I know?’ said Leonia in surprise. ‘But whatever it is, we need to be at our maximum alertness. Given our performance to date, the others have marked us out – or rather marked me out – as strong contenders, which means we will face deliberate sabotage at some time in the day.’

‘Oh, great!’ said Annie. ‘Perhaps we’ll be out of here by the end of today.’

‘No!’ said Leonia very sharply, for the first time showing something like emotion.

Annie sat up in her hammock in surprise.

‘I don’t want to go home!’ said Leonia very fiercely. ‘Not there! Not back there.



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