"Jide and Petra are two regular kids in an astronaut training program, hoping to be chosen for a top-secret mission on Mars. Unfortunately, proving they're the right kids for the job isn't going according to plan."--Back cover.

In "American Apostles," the Bancroft Prize-winning historian Christine Leigh Heyrman brilliantly chronicles the first fateful collision between American missionaries and the diverse religious cultures of the Levant. Pliny Fisk, Levi Parsons, and Jonas King became the founding members of the Palestine mission and ventured to Ottoman Turkey, Egypt, and Syria, where they sought to expose the falsity of Muhammad's creed and to restore these bastions of...