You have to be born a space cruiser, as you can’t be trained to become one. The Roar brothers, protagonists of The Galaxy Boys and The Sphere, live in an orphanage, having lost all trace of their mother and father, and they have a great sense of adventure in their blood.

They come across a strange email, in which Rob, Will, Matt and Kris are called up for a mission to save a galactic senator and her daughter Katia. This gives them the ideal opportunity to track down their parents, apparently lost somewhere in the galaxy.

They are the only ones who can save them and bring back the Sphere – a sort of mysterious living organism holding the absolute knowledge.

The Galaxy Boys and The Sphere is a stunning, colourful and lively adventure that every child would dream of living.

The four brothers are brave, loyal, normal children, who are thrown into a galaxy of creatures and aliens, risking their lives in their attempts to save those of everyone around them in the process.

The story is filled with an incredible family background: a father, who is a space ranger himself, having passed his innate abilities of travelling and understanding galaxies onto his offspring; their mother coming from an alien planet, which makes the boys half-human and half-Mindinee (from the planet Mindin).

Robots, enemies and threatening situations fill the pages of Andrew Steele’s novel, with promises of a new adventure from the Roar family coming soon.

One of the most powerful presences in the book – beyond the boys – is the Tenacity, the spaceship built by the boys’ father, and later found by the boys. The boys were able to use his very spaceship in order for them to follow the instructions left by their father, beginning from where he had left off. The spaceship becomes an integral tool to solve the galactic destiny.

Even though the author provides a good description of the Tenacity, what does it really look like out of the pages of a book? With this in mind, Andrew Steele appeals to all children out there to draw their own perceptions of what the spaceship might look like.

The most original and the closest to the author’s description will be the winner, the prize being a Playstation 3. For more information about the competition, please ask your local bookshop or refer to the Janus publishing web site (www.januspublishing.co.uk).

The book has been published by Janus Publishing Co. Ltd. and it is available for purchase in most bookshops and on the Internet.