Space Junk

Space Junk is a suspenseful science fiction story about a cadet who accidently lets an alien aboard the spaceship thinking that the alien is space junk. The book also discusses text connections, planning a science fiction story, and features of a science fiction story.

The text is divided into chapters and a Contents is provided.  A variety of sentence types is used.  Illustrations support and enhance the text. Text boxes call attention to literary features such as oxymoron, imagery, personification, similes, and metaphors and prompt the use of comprehension strategies, such as questioning, predicting, inferring, and clarifying.

The text uses descriptive language.

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