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A spaceship from the past has been found by boys bunking off a geography field trip. They have no idea where it came from or what it does. But Geoff, the youngest member of the group, discovers that when you sit in it, these little coloured lights come on, and if you push one of the big blue ones . . . WHOOSH!
First publish date: 1997
Genre: Young Adult Fiction/YA Science Fiction
Authors: Andrew Norriss
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