RORY HOBBLE
RORY HOBBLE
AND THE VOYAGE TO HALIGOGEN
'This story is full of adventure and heart! A real page turner!'
- Dani Harmer
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'Warm, funny, pacy, endlessly inventive and life-affirming; there are lots of young readers who will identify with Rory'
- Chris Beckett, Arthur C. Clarke-Award winner
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'A boy-and-social-worker space-travelling duo... What's not to love?! A truly unique sci-fi adventure, which does not shy away from the difficult realities being faced by some children here on Earth'
- Onjali Q. Rauf, winner of the Blue Peter Book Award 2019 and Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2019
AN UNFORGETTABLE RESCUE MISSION TO THE FROZEN ENDS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM…
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When mysterious lights appear in the night sky and his mother is abducted, RORY HOBBLE is thrown into an adventure of galactic proportions. With his firecracker social worker driving him on, he must outwit a secret human civilisation living on a Martian moon, survive the threat of otherworldly creatures and learn to speak to alien whales.
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But if Rory is to ever see his mother again, he will have to summon all his courage to overcome the terrifying intrusive thoughts that set him apart as different from other children. In a universe of monsters, sometimes the scariest are those that we carry in our own head…