Gracie Goes to Mars
Greg Krehbiel
Paperback
(Independently published, April 13, 2019)
Gracie wants to play, but Grandpa is very sad. He accidentally broke the planet while he was tinkering in his workshop, and Gracie's and Grandpa's only hope is to build a space ship and get away from the Earth. They make space suits with big glass helmets and build a ramshackle rocket out of scraps from Grandpa's workshop, complete with a control panel and chairs. But when they blast off, Gracie isn't sure she wants to go to Mars.