Does anybody else remember these books?

[jinxed_wood]

There was a book meme going around about childhood favourites that started me thinking about my own. There was one series of books about four kids that cobble together a spaceship, run away from boarding school on terrible old Earth, and go off on a high adventure to find their parents on a colonised planet... yeah, I can hear you judging me from

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[jinxed_wood]

[Grins] The science in these books was a bit cracked but the characters were wonderful.

[persiflage_1]

I'm not judging - I love the idea!

[jinxed_wood]

I remember having so much fun reading these as a kid.

[persiflage_1]

I must check the library for them.

[kerravonsen]

Nicholas Fisk... that name rings a bell. (applies some Google-Fu) Ah, he wrote "Trillions" which I must have borrowed from the library when I was a kid.

[jinxed_wood]

Nicholas Fisk pretty much dominated children's science fiction in the late 70s/early 80s!

[cat_i_th_adage]

I... may have read one? It's the premise I remember best. Did they build their spaceship out of junkyard parts?

[jinxed_wood]

Yup, you've got the right book!

[bastun_ie]

I have a very vague memory of reading one of those - again from the premise. Was it either junkyard parts or a meteorite they found, which they figured they could use as a hull as it was clearly already spaceworthy?

[jinxed_wood]

Yes! In fact, it was that bit of information that helped me google the book - it turns out there weren't many children's science fiction books that used hollowed out meteorites as spaceships :-P