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By Anneli Furmark

Cleopatra in Space: Target Practice Journalism Madeleine Flores’ tale of aBy Mike Maihack. Published by Scholastic. Softcover, 176 pages, Colour, 2014. When fifteen year old Cleopatra (yes, THAT Cleopatra) finds a mysterious tablet that zaps her to the far, REALLY far future, she learns of an ancient prophecy that says she is destined to save the galaxy from the tyrannical rule of the evil Xaius Octavian. She enrolls in Yasiro Academy, a high tech school with classes like algebra, biology, and alien languages (which Cleo