Peril on the Red Planet
By Mollye Maxner, Shona Simpson and Brian Sutow
Music by James Stewart
Earth’s first permanent community on Mars is threatened by starvation. Thirteen-year-old Diana takes matters into her own hands by recreating the ZARTOK machine first produced by a team of scientists ten years prior to make the soil of Mars capable of growing food. She does not realize until ZARTOK is powered up that there is a terrible glitch in its software, making it a force of destruction.
Diana must set off with her robot sidekick, Abeona, to stop ZARTOK from destroying Mars. Along the way she seeks out the scientists who first made ZARTOK and learns lessons about teamwork, empathy, responsibility, courage, and sacrifice.
Curriculum ties to Social Studies, Science, Math, English Language Arts, Guidance Goals, Music, Dance and Theater.
Geared for grades 3 – 8.
