The Books

Scratching the Surface

Available from Amazon Featured in Emily Lakdawalla’s Recommended Space Books for Kids, from The Planetary Society The Generation Mars series begins with a prelude: Scratching the Surface. This book serves as a sort of prologue to the series, introducing characters and themes that will be revisited in later books. Told through the eyes of two …

Air

Available from Amazon Red Ribbon Winner from The Wishing Shelf Book Awards There are four fundamental things humans require for survival: air to breathe, shelter to keep our bodies safe, water to drink, and food to eat. Take any of these away and we cannot survive for long. Shelter, water, and food, we must put …

Shelter

Available from Amazon Five Star review from Readers’ Favorite Sisters Cas and Ori are among the first children born on Mars. The Generation Mars series follows their adventures as they grow up in an environment unlike any in which children have grown up before. Each book in the series uses a fundamental element of survival …

Water

Now available! Swimming on Mars? Not likely. There is water on Mars, but it is frozen solid beneath the surface. In the future, not long from now, that ice will prove invaluable for those that live there. It will provide not just their water for drinking and growing crops, but also their air, their fuel, …