Copyright © 2014 by Jennifer Brown

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First published in the United States of America in August 2014
by Bloomsbury Children’s Books
E-book edition published in August 2014
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Brown, Jennifer.
Life on Mars / by Jennifer Brown.
pages      cm
Summary: Twelve-year-old Arcturus Betelgeuse Chambers’s quest to find life on other planets seems at an end when his parents decide to move to Las Vegas, but while they look for a house he stays with his neighbor, an astronaut who soon becomes a friend.
[1. Astronomy—Fiction. 2. Extraterrestrial beings—Fiction. 3. Astronauts—Fiction.
4. Friendship—Fiction. 5. Family life—Fiction. 6. Moving, Household—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.B814224Lif  2014        [Fic]—dc23      2013038537

ISBN: 978-1-61963-253-0 (e-book)

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