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Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century

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Author
  
Marilyn Sadler

Publisher
  
Simon & Schuster

Pages
  
48

Illustrator
  
Roger Bollen

Publication date
  
1996

Genre
  
Science fiction, Young adult fiction

Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century is a 1996 children's science fiction picture book written by Marilyn Sadler and illustrated by Roger Bollen. It tells the story of Zenon Kar, a girl in the year 2049 who lives on a space station in the Milky Way. She is sent to her aunt on Earth to keep her out of trouble. She spends the summer on her grandparents' farm, learning their "old-fashioned" chores in their low-tech life. References in the novel are inspired by well-known science fiction characters.

Contents

In 1999 the book was adapted into a television film as the Disney Channel Original Movie Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century.

First edition

  • Marilyn Sadler (1996). Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century. Illustrated by Roger Bollen. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. p. 48. ISBN 978-0-689-80514-1. 
  • Series

    There are five books in the Zenon, Girl of the 21st Century series:

  • Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century (1997)
  • Bobo Crazy: Zenon, Girl of the 21st Century (2001)
  • Zenon Kar, Spaceball Star (2001)
  • The Trouble with Fun (2001)
  • Stuck on Earth: Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century (2002)
  • References

    Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century Wikipedia


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