Eleven-year-old Kate has always been fascinated by astronomy. She loves to look up at the stars and think about the different worlds out there. Then a strange accident suddenly sends her voyaging into outer space.

One minute Kate is playing with her toy spacecraft, and the next she's dumped onto a desert planet. Kate can tell that she is very far from home. She is determined to return to Earth, but first she will have to figure out how to survive in a perilous alien environment.

As Kate begins scouting for food and water, she discovers that the mysterious planet is hiding a...