Stuart Gibbs

Waste of Space

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Why this book counts

  • Astronomy & Space
  • Engineering & Technology
  • Human Body & Health
  • Story / Adventure
  • Maker / Problem-Solving

A poisoning traps Dash's investigation among the residents and systems of Moon Base Alpha while the culprit tries to stop him. The closed lunar setting makes exposure evidence, life-support dependence, and the limits of an invented colony part of solving the mystery.

The science inside

  • Space & Planets
  • Spaceflight
  • Engineering & Design
  • Medicine & Health

Your child will meet:

  • A closed habitat depends on engineered supplies and monitoring for air, water, food, waste, and power.
  • A poisoning claim requires evidence about substance, route, timing, dose, symptoms, and opportunity rather than suspicion alone.
  • A controlled environment can narrow some possibilities while creating shared-system risks.
  • A fictional Moon colony can combine real lunar constraints with technologies or alien elements that do not yet exist.

Use it this way

Keep a clue table with observation, possible explanation, Moon-base constraint, and fiction flag, then revise one hypothesis when new evidence appears; never recreate a poisoning, taste an unknown substance, or use the novel for medical or emergency advice.

Parent effort: Simple activity

A New York Times bestselling series. Tensions are running high when multi-billionaire Lars Sjoburg is poisoned and everyone is looking to Dash Gibson to solve the case in this third and final book in the New York Times bestselling Moon Base Alpha series. Moon Base Alpha was supposed to be an exciting place to live, but Dashiell Gibson didn't expect for it to be this exciting. He's already had to solve a murder and locate a missing moon base commander. Now, he just wants to have a calm, quiet thirteenth birthday. But, of course, trillionaire (and total pain) Lars Sjoburg ruins it--by being poisoned. Now there's another potential killer loose on Moon Base Alpha, and Dash is forced to identify the most likely suspects. Suddenly Dash finds himself with a target on his back. Whoever poisoned Lars will stop at nothing to keep his--or her--identity a secret.

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