The X-Factor

Book Three in the Galaxy X Trilogy

For Ages: 8 - 12
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MISSION: To find out who is responsible for Bret Johnston's death, and save Galaxy X from another tragedy!

LOCATION: Galaxy X, a new theme park in California.

POTENTIAL VICTIMS: Any number of A-list celebs invited to the grand opening of the park.

SUSPECTS: Tyrone McKenzie and his family seem to make enemies by the second. But is it a new enemy that wants to keep the park shut down? Or someone from the McKenzie family's past who has suddenly resurfaced...?
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  • Aladdin | 
  • 176 pages | 
  • ISBN 9781416978022 | 
  • September 2009 | 
  • Grades 3 - 7 | 
  • Lexile 660L
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Bombs Away

“Aaaah!” I yelled as my mountain bike’s front tire skidded on a patch of mud. At the speed I was going over the rough wooded trail, a wipeout would be a disaster.

I wrenched the handlebars to one side, slipping through the mud at a forty-five-degree angle to the ground. Somehow the bike kept going and I managed to get it upright again. Whew!

The bike I was chasing was only a dozen yards ahead now, its rider crouched over the handlebars. Just then the ground dropped away in a steep downhill incline. There were big, jagged rocks embedded everywhere in the packed dirt. I had to pay...

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