Akiko : The Training Master by Illustrated by Mark Crilley; By (Author) Mark Crilley
	List Price:   $9.95 Unit Price:   $7.96 You Save:   $1.99 (20%) ISBN-10:   0385730438 ISBN-13:   9780385730433 Publisher:   Random House [IN]; Delacorte Books for Young Readers Series:   Akiko Ser. Edition:   illustrated Category:   Reading Series Pub. Date:   February 2005 Pages:   224 Format:   Hardcover Ages:   8 to Grades:   3 to
Awards
2006  Massachusetts Children's Book Award  Nominee/Honoree
Subjects
CHILDREN
Description/Notes
Fifth-grader Akiko renews her acquaintance with her friends from the planet Smoo when they whisk her away to the Zarga Baffa Training Camp, where she must deal with mud, misery, and a training master who is out to get her. When Akikos Smoovian friends, Poog, Mr. Beeba, Gax, and Spuckler Boach, swing by to pick her up in an astroshuttle, shes feeling bored with her normal life and more than ready to goanywhere. What she doesnt know is that King Froptoppit has enrolled them all in the Intergalactic Space Patrollers Training Camp on Zarga Baffa. Every planet in the universe relies on patrollers for protection, but no one from Smoo has ever graduated. Akiko and her crew are the planets last hope. After a freak accident at nearby Virpling Canyon, Akikos crew faces the ultimate final exam. Will Akiko go home, leaving the rescuing to others? Or will she stay and risk everything?