Black Hole Radio: Ka'Azula
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Stay tuned for another fantastic episode of Black Hole Radio – Ka’Azula!
Fifth-graders Hawk, Matt and Celeste have been given special gifts by the amazing aliens they’ve met so far on their intergalactic adventures. ESP and telekinesis come in handy when they are transported to the racist planet, Ka’Azula, where only blue skin is accepted. They have an action-packed adventure in a matrix-type video game with azulanimals and azulizards and a tricky escape room finale. With help from a sweet, red-skinned alien named Teal, they prove that what counts is not outside skin color but what's on the inside. But does Matt now understand what his father’s family has to endure on Planet Earth?
“Friendship, peace, and acceptance are the themes in Black Hole Radio. Even if it doesn’t yet apply to alien races in ‘real-life’ it is still something everyone should strive for in their lives. In a sense, the author wants her readers to apply the same beliefs in love, peace, and friendship that Hawk and Matt [and Celeste] share.”
—Entrada Book Review
Ann Birdgenaw
Ann Birdgenaw is a librarian in an elementary school and always wanted to write a book of her own. She was inspired to write this story by a strange beeping coming from a box in her garage. When COVID-19 hit Canada and everyone was in quarantine or lock down, she had lots of time to imagine being sucked through a wormhole to other planets and what wonderful things she might find there. Ann lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with her family and two morkies: Bilbo and Sheba.
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Black Hole Radio - Ann Birdgenaw
Black Hole
Radio
KA’AZULA
Ann Birdgenaw
Illustrations by E.M. Roberts
Copyright © 2022 by Ann Birdgenaw
Illustrations by E.M. Roberts
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in reviews and certain other non-commercial uses permitted by copyright law.
This is a work of fiction. Any characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
Printed in the United States of America
ISBN: 978-1-953910-52-3 (paperback)
ISBN: 978-1-953910-69-1 (ebook)
LCCN: 2022906374
4697 Main Street
Manchester Center, VT 05255
I dedicate this book to the students of Solomon Schechter Academy—my amazing readers!
Contents
Prologue - Home Sweet Home-Planet
Chapter 1 - Matt’s Slam-Dunk
Chapter 2 - Whose Trick Is It?
Chapter 3 - The Shooting Star
Chapter 4 - The Soggybottom Team
Chapter 5 - The Other Big Question
Chapter 6 - Whose Big Idea?
Chapter 7 - We’ve Got the Blues
Chapter 8 - The Great Escape
Chapter 9 - It’s Good To Be Blue
Chapter 10 - Videogames Give Us the Blues
Chapter 11 - Game On
Chapter 12 - Who’s the Bluest of Them All?
Chapter 13 - Hang Onto Your Cart
Chapter 14 - Who’s On the Edge?
Chapter 15 - Staying Alive
Chapter 16 - The Abyss
Chapter 17 - The Color Purple
Chapter 18 - AIN’s Law
Hawk’s Epilogue
Author’s Note
Glossary of Space and Science Terms
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Illustrator
Prologue
Home Sweet Home-Planet
I can’t run any faster, and I feel them bearing down on me. Run! I scream inside my head. Giant, robotic bugs are chasing me through the jungle, and they are closing in. I have to think fast. I jump over a thick bush and land with a tuck and roll. Turning over, I see them all leaping on top of me! Ants, roaches, bees, Ahhhhhhhh! I can’t get away. My arms are heavy, and I can’t move my legs.
Whaaaaa . . . Huh? . . .
Looking around in a panic, I realize that it’s my recurring nightmare. Again!
My heart is pounding, and I’m sweating, but relieved to find myself alone in my own room, in my own bed. Well, one tiny spider in the corner of the ceiling. But we have a deal: if the spider stays up there and leaves me alone, I will leave her alone. After our experience on Bilaluna, I have a new respect for insects.
I collapse onto my pillow. I should explain and tell you what happened to Matt, Celeste, and me on the second most unbelievable, intergalactic day of my life. I say the second because it has happened to us once before. Matt and I got sucked through the wormhole radio in the garage attached to our space club, where we were watching our favorite TV show, Star Trekkers. We ended up on planetoid Shnergla, whose aliens thought we were heroes coming to save them from some intergalactic bullies. Imagine us heroes! Then, our new friend Celeste had a cosmic conniption in our clubhouse and accidentally activated the wormhole radio again! We all landed on the moon Bilaluna and helped the cyborg alien insects save their dying world. They had a climate disaster that I hope we can avoid here on Earth. It’s the second time that the radio has taken us to a planet that needed our help with a life or death situation.
You don’t believe me, right? Yeah, sure, you’re thinking, ‘A portal to outer space in your garage! Intergalactic bullies and insect cyborgs! Ha!’ Well, I have proof; Matt and I can read each other’s minds with ESP. It’s a gift we got from the Supreme Leader of Shnergla. It comes in handy for taming bullies and reading alien thoughts.
On planetoid Shnergla, I found out that my Grandpa had gone through the portal too when he was young. Bam! That blew my mind! Now I feel like everything we had ever done together prepared me to follow in his footsteps and continue the adventure. I don’t think he meant for me to start so soon, but he died before he could tell me anything about it. I’m curious about what else is in those boxes of his stuff in the garage. The radio wormhole was wild enough, but I think he kept journals, and I feel like I’m ready to read them. It was tough for me when he died. I didn’t know how to handle it. But I’m curious to learn more about his adventures and what messages he left for