Blast off on an adventure with the Space Cadets in a funny and fast-paced journey through space! Filled with out-of-this world illustrations on every page, Astrid and the Space Cadets: Race from Planet Peril! is perfect for fans of Grimwood and Bad Guys, and for kids who are ready to read by themselves. Astrid Atomic and her best friends, the Space Cadets, have been given an important mission from the Chief - to retrieve the special trophy for the Supersonic Saturn Race. Tonight, they'll have to fly under boiling hot lava waterfalls, zoom through fields of flaming flowers and sneak past a big, toothy, scary space monster! And things go from bad to worse when they realize that the naughty Dr. Boris Uranus on their tail. Will they get to the trophy before time runs out?