The Rock

By Val Neubecker

A children's sci-fi adventure story for ages 9-12 with an interesting premise: do we have visitors from outer space here on  Earth at times?  This is set in the Australian desert.  Read the story and learn about Aussie places, Aussie wildlife and Aussie slang – it's all there!  Then consider whether Earth might have a related planet somewhere in the galaxy!

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A spacecraft from a faraway planet approaches the Red Centre of Australia. It hovers above the ground and Junior is beamed down. His mission is to recharge an IGMOC, a communication device hidden in a big rock in the middle of the desert.

Forgetting to do one simple thing, the task turns out to be almost impossible for the short-tempered alien. Now he must rely on a small spiky reptile to achieve his goal.  Junior finds everything is weird in this part of Australia – weird animals, weird places, weird happenings.

With a long distance to travel and a short timeframe, can Junior get to The Rock, recharge the IGMOC and reconnect with his spacecraft?

The future of the entire universe depends on him.

 

(approx. 19,000 words)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Val Neubecker
• Release date: May 31, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393311911

Val Neubecker

Val lives in Perth, Australia. She wrote scripts and songs for a theatre restaurant for 18 years and has had three children’s books published.  Poems, short stories and plays have been published in the NSW School Magazine and NZ School Journal. She recently diversified into music and has a published book of children’s Christmas songs, ‘Ho! Ho! Ho! & Other Christmas Songs’, for which she composed the music and wrote the lyrics.  She has also written a children’s Christmas musical. Val is the Poetry Coordinator for Creative Connections, an organisation where poets write poems to artworks created by artists with disabilities.

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