Books with author Pat David

Thirteen-year-old Estelle lives with her cousins, Ray and Harry, under the care of their guardian, Uncle Graylon. In the year 2300, Estelle enjoys living at the beautiful Lakeside apartments on Mars. The air has been breathable for almost fifty years. She has fun, playing with the fish in their beautiful lake. Estelle and her cousins are always ready to travel to different parts of Mars. Once they visited the ¿face¿ formation. They didn¿t even know the formation until they saw it from an airship ¿ with the light shining on it in just the right way. Estelle even tolerates the Sun-Storm drills that they have every week. She remembers, four years ago, a Solar Wind only dug up a few bushes and snapped a few trees. This one is different. Now they must begin a new adventure ¿ how to get out of Mars, with no airships.

Frank and the Future of Mars tells the Martian adventures of twelve-year-old Frank Wilson, in the year 2185. Frank lives in underground Saganville on Mars where his parents are gardeners. Frank must choose his life work. His father expects him to choose gardening, but Frank wants to try other occupations. He sneaks out of Saganville illegally, by himself, to look for diamonds in a crater on Mars. He discovers that diamonds are not important on Mars, so Frank changes his quest to find rare, Martian limestone. Failing to find limestone, Frank faces trouble from three boys in his class, from a friend’s sister using blackmail against him, and a father who grounds him. Frank and his friends try to plant wheat. After his initial failures, Frank is determined to try again, with different tactics and struggles to do something to make his parents proud of him.

Prince Scion realized hazily that his skin no longer seemed to be on fire. That was a relief. He felt himself growing cold though. That was odd. The voices were getting more distant too. He could still hear Deelia, though. "What do you mean there's nothing you can do?" he heard her say. She sounded like she was crying. "You have to do something! He's dying!" Wizard Jasper still has work to do. Prince Scion has been absent too long and the king and queen are concerned. So, Wizard Jasper, Princess Abigail, Captain Hart, Anna, Mickey, and Quast are off on another adventure to search for Prince Scion. In the meantime, Prince Scion is having enough problems of his own! He's been kidnapped and enchanted, and only with the help of a new friend can he escape the trap the evil sorcerer has him in.