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| Author | Marilyn Sadler |
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| Illustrator | Roger Bollen |
| Genre | Science fiction, Young adult fiction |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers |
Publication date | 1996 |
| Pages | 48 |
| ISBN | 978-0-689-80514-1 |
Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century is a 1996 children's science fiction picture book written by Marilyn Sadler and illustrated by Roger Bollen. It tells the story of Zenon Kar, a girl in the year 2049 who lives on a space station in the Milky Way.[1] She is sent to her aunt on Earth to keep her out of trouble. She spends the summer on her grandparents' farm, learning their "old-fashioned" chores in their low-tech life. References in the novel are inspired by well-known science fiction characters.[2]
In 1999, the book was adapted into a television film as the Disney Channel Original Movie Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century.[3]
- ^ "Zenon : girl of the 21st century - North Texas Library Consortium". North Texas Library Consortium. Retrieved 2022-05-07.
Because Zenon creates trouble at her space station home somewhere in the Milky Way, her parents send her to her grandparents' farm on Earth to work for the summer.
- ^ "Children's Book Review: Zenon: Girl of the Twenty-First Century by Marilyn Sadler". 1996-05-01. Retrieved 2016-03-02.
- ^ Erickson, Hal (2014). "Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century (1999)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2014-12-20. Retrieved 2016-03-02.