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Query abandoned by poster > ABANDONED. Child or YA book- About children who caught a spaceship 'bus' to school who got lost when they played with the controls.

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Sarah | 10 comments It's either a older children's book or a YA book. It was a reasonable length, about 200-300 pages I think, with images drawn into the start of each chapter. Probably published in the 80s or 90s.
I remember there was a spaceship 'school bus' that was dropping kids off at home along various planets and galaxies. Two (or maybe three) were at the very end of the route and got bored. Fiddled with a food machine (that would dispense food to all children and that apparently was the same 'food' material just reshaped into what the kid wanted, like a banana or a burger, so technically the whole thing right to the peel was edible) before they found the empty control room and played with the controls. They accidentally knocked the spaceship off course and ended up getting lost.
I also remember that they wound up at a planet that was much more primitive, iron age or something, but beyond that I can't remember much. (Except that the boy they met had long hair in the drawing and I decided when I was a kid that long hair was attractive.)

I'd love to read this book again! Any help would be fantastic.


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Sarah | 10 comments bump


message 3: by Lobstergirl, au gratin (new)

Lobstergirl | 44924 comments Mod
Sarah, normal bump time is 30 days.


message 4: by Sarah (new)

Sarah | 10 comments Oh my bad


message 5: by Sarah (new)

Sarah | 10 comments Bump


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Sarah | 10 comments Bump


message 8: by Sarah (new)

Sarah | 10 comments Nope. It was a YA book and not the magic schoolbus.


message 9: by Lobstergirl, au gratin (new)

Lobstergirl | 44924 comments Mod
Sarah, are you still looking for this or did you find it?


message 10: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart | 28715 comments Still out there, Sarah?


message 11: by Lobstergirl, au gratin (new)

Lobstergirl | 44924 comments Mod
Lobstergirl wrote: "Sarah, are you still looking for this or did you find it?"

No response in 2 years. Moving to Abandoned.


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