Mighty Jack and Zita The Spacegirl Readalong

Who's ready for the middle-grade team up of the century?!

We are counting down the days to Ben Hatke’s newest graphic novel MIGHTY JACK AND ZITA THE SPACEGIRL with a Read Along!

Join us for the #JackandZitaReadalong! We're reading each book in these awesome series every week!

We want to hear all about why you love this series, so be sure to comment at @01firstsecond with #JackandZitaReadalong on your favorite social media platform! Let us know your favorite scenes, characters, and lines from the book!

Here is the schedule:

Mighty Jack: 7/31- 8/6

Mighty Jack and the Goblin King: 8/7-8/13

Zita the Spacegirl: 8/14 - 8/20

The Legend of Zita the Spacegirl: 8/21- 8/27

The Return of Zita the Spacegirl: 8/28-9/3

READ THE SERIES THAT STARTED IT ALL

Don a cape and follow the indomitable space explorer Zita from start to finish! From her unlikely origin as a humble earth girl to her wildest spacefaring adventures—robot doppelgängers, space whales, doomsday cults—it's all here!

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Zita's life took a cosmic left turn in the blink of an eye. When her best friend is abducted by an alien doomsday cult, Zita leaps to the rescue and finds herself a stranger on a strange planet. Humanoid chickens and neurotic robots are shocking enough as new experiences go, but Zita is even more surprised to find herself taking on the role of intergalactic hero. Before long, aliens in all shapes and sizes don't even phase her. Neither do ancient prophecies, doomed planets, or even a friendly con man who takes a mysterious interest in Zita's quest.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Ben Hatke brings back our intrepid space heroine for another delightful sci-fi/fantasy adventure. Zita is determined to find her way home to earth, following the events of the first book. But things are never simple, and certainly never easy, in space. Zita's exploits from her first adventure have made her an intergalactic megastar! But she's about to find out that fame doesn't come without a price. And who can you trust when your true self is being eclipsed by your public persona, and you've got a robot doppelganger wreaking havoc . . . while wearing your face? Still, if anyone can find their way through this intractible mess of mistaken identity and alien invaders, it's the indomitable Zita, in Legends 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. But she faces her biggest challenge yet in the third and final installment of the Zita adventures. 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!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ben Hatke is the author of the New York Times–bestselling Zita the Spacegirl trilogy, the Mighty Jack series, the Eisner Award–winning Little Robot, and the picture books Julia’s House for Lost Creatures and Nobody Likes a Goblin. He lives and works in the Shenandoah Valley with his wife and five daughters. He loves archery and is very happy in a canoe.