Hatke lives and works in the Shenandoah Valley with his wife and their boisterous pack of daughters. Return of Zita the Spacegirl is his most recent entry in the New York Times Best-Selling Zita trilogy. In addition to writing and drawing comics, he also paints in the naturalist tradition and, occasionally, performs one-man fire shows. Review: For no reason at all, a little red button crashes to earth while Zita and her pal Joseph are out. He has published comics stories in the Flight series as well as Flight Explorer. Zita the Spacegirl is his first graphic novel. Hornbook Guide to Children - Recommended, Satisfactoryīen Hatke's first graphic novel was Zita the Spacegirl. Quiz #/Name: 165767 / Return of Zita the Spacegirl Ben Hatke brings back our intrepid space heroine for another delightful sci-fi/fantasy adventure in this New York Times-Bestselling graphic novel trilogy for middle grade readers.Zita the Spacegirl has saved planets, battled monsters, and wrestled with interplanetary fame. Wrongfully imprisoned on a penitentiary planet, Zita has to plot the galaxy's greatest jailbreak before the evil prison warden can execute his plan of interstellar domination But she faces her biggest challenge yet in the third and final installment of the Zita adventures. Zita the Spacegirl has saved planets, battled monsters, and wrestled with interplanetary fame. Ben Hatke brings back our intrepid space heroine for another delightful sci-fi/fantasy adventure in this New York Times-Bestselling graphic novel trilogy for middle grade readers.

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