Zita rushes to the rescue after her best friend is abducted by an alien doomsday cult, and, before long, finds herself hailed as an intergalactic hero.
Zita is determined to find her way home to Earth, but her exploits have made her an intergallactic megastar, and as her true self is eclipsed by her public persona, she faces a robot doppelganger, unsure of who she can trust.
Julie welcomes all lost and homeless creatures into her house, whether they be cats or trolls, ghosts or dragons, but soon realizes that each must have a chore in order for the arrangement to work.
"Like a bolt from the blue, Jack's little sister Maddy is gone-- carried into another realm by an ogre. When Jack and Lilly follow Maddy's captor through the portal, they are ready for anything... except what they find waiting for them in the floating crossroads between worlds. Even the power of their magic plants may not be enough to get them back to earth alive"--Back cover.
In this modern retelling of "Jack and the Beanstalk," young Jack's boring summer of babysitting becomes exciting after his normally mute autistic kid sister, Maddy, advises him to trade his mother's car for a box of mysterious seeds.
"Like a bolt from the blue, Jack's little sister Maddy is gone-- carried into another realm by an ogre. When Jack and Lilly follow Maddy's captor through the portal, they are ready for anything... except what they find waiting for them in the floating crossroads between worlds. Even the power of their magic plants may not be enough to get them back to earth alive"--Back cover.
"Wrongfully imprisoned on a penitentiary planet, Zita has to plot the galaxy's greatest jailbreak before the evil prison warden can execute his plan of interstellar domination!"--From publisher's web site.
"Like a bolt from the blue, Jack's little sister Maddy is gone-- carried into another realm by an ogre. When Jack and Lilly follow Maddy's captor through the portal, they are ready for anything... except what they find waiting for them in the floating crossroads between worlds. Even the power of their magic plants may not be enough to get them back to earth alive"--Back cover.
Wrongly imprisoned on a penitentiary planet, Zita must plan the greatest jailbreak in galactic history in order to escape and save the world from the warden's evil plot.
