All Systems Whoa

by Andrea J. Loney, Fuuji Takashi (Illustrator)

Overview

Good Housekeeping 2023 Kids' Book Award Winner

How can Abby Baxter prove she's not a Bad Baxter, but an Awesome Abby?

On Career Day, Abby Baxter's classmates are excited to learn about all the jobs adults do on the space station. But Abby has no idea what her career should be—next to her brilliant doctor parents, she always feels like a Bad Baxter. Even worse, she makes a few mistakes that cause systems on the space station to start going haywire. Can Abby untangle the mess and find her own strengths?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807504192
Publisher:	Whitman, Albert & Company
Publication date:	08/15/2024
Series:	Abby in Orbit , #3
Pages:	96
Sales rank:	316,475
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 7.63(h) x (d)
Lexile:	710L (what's this?)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

Andrea J. Loney is an award-winning children's author whose books celebrate diversity, joy, and kindness. She holds an MFA from New York University and, in addition to the Abby in Orbit series, has published several acclaimed picture books, including Bunnybear and Double Bass Blues, which won a Caldecott Honor. Andrea lives in Los Angeles, California, with her family and their incredibly spoiled pets.

Fuuji Takashi is a children's book illustrator and character designer from General Santos, Philippines. She is best known for illustrating Love Is Bubblegum, and for her work on children’s books featuring diverse characters. In her spare time, she likes cooking, singing, and taking long, peaceful walks.

Editorial Reviews

Good Housekeeping 2023 Kids' Book Award Winner

"Space-themed fun with encouragement for readers wondering about what the future holds."—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

Good Housekeeping 2023 Kids' Book Award Winner

Good Housekeeping

2023-05-09
The brilliant Baxter clan returns in another intergalactic outing aboard the Oasis International Space Station.

Abby’s Mami and Papi are renowned scientists on the Oasis, and now that it’s Career Day, Abby feels the pressure to live up to their example. “I don’t know what I want to do when I grow up. I don’t even know what I’m good at,” Abby laments to friends Gracie Chen (who presents Asian) and Dmitry Petrov (depicted as light-skinned and cued as Eastern European), who seem to have their own futures all planned out. As Abby shadows various adults on the space station, learning about what they do, she makes what turn out to be some big mistakes, misplacing a bag of vegetables from the Green Pod and accidentally pressing some buttons in one of the pods. Luckily all ends well, with Abby getting a better sense of what she might like to do as an adult and realizing she doesn’t have to follow in her parents’ footsteps. Loney’s simple but heartfelt story will engage youngsters building their comprehension skills. Takashi’s grayscale artwork brings to life the Oasis, populated by diverse children and adults, and captures a sweetness in relationships between characters, particularly among the Baxters. The book ends with a list of vocabulary words and some information on the International Space Station. Abby and her family are cued as Black and Latine.

Space-themed fun with encouragement for readers wondering about what the future holds. (Chapter book. 6-9)

Kirkus Reviews