Estelle and the Escape from Mars

About the Book

Thirteen-year-old Estelle lives with her cousins, Ray and Harry, under the care of their guardian, Uncle Graylon.  In the year 2300, Estelle enjoys living at the beautiful Lakeside apartments on Mars.  The air has been breathable for almost fifty years.  She has fun, playing with the fish in their beautiful lake.  Estelle and her cousins are always ready to travel to different parts of Mars.  Once they visited the “face” formation.  They didn’t even know the formation until they saw it from an airship – with the light shining on it in just the right way.  Estelle even tolerates the Sun-Storm drills that they have every week.  She remembers, four years ago, a Solar Wind only dug up a few bushes and snapped a few trees.  This one is different.  Now they must begin a new adventure – how to get out of Mars, with no airships.

About the Author

The Author and Illustrator, Pat Davis, is a product of St. Louis, Missouri, where she taught in the elementary schools for thirty years.  Pat has been writing stories and poetry most of her life.  Estelle and the Escape from Mars, is the fifth book and seventh adventure story written about “Kids on Mars.” Other stories about “Kids on Mars” are:

Book 1, Footprints on Mars – a Martian trilogy

Glen and the Gardens of Mars

Rusty and the Rocks of Mars

Amanda and the Mirrors of Mars

Book 2, Frank and the Future of Mars

Book 3, Steven and the Seas of Mars

Book 4, Wanda and the Wells of Mars

Pat Davis was an active member in the Eastern Missouri Paleontology Society for many years and contributed to the children's page of that organization's newsletter.  She collects rocks and minerals, and has a great interest in the exploration of the Solar System.