Lilly and the Sky-Root

<p>When twelve-year-old Lilly Chatterjee sees a strange green root blink across the Bangalore sky everyone calls it debris. Lilly calls it a mystery. She climbs to the rooftop catches a falling fragment and discovers something impossible: a piece of glass that behaves like a living plant.</p><p>With her brother Arjun and her best friend Kareem Lilly sneaks the sample into the school lab and uncovers a secret no textbook explains. The only way to learn more? Enter the school's CubeSat competition and send the fragment into orbit-without letting any adults know what they're really studying.</p><p>What begins as a after-school science project turns serious when the root reaches the space station and starts to grow. It slips into wiring drinks power and forces the crew-and Lilly-to decide what to do with a form of life that doesn't follow any rules they've ever learned.</p><p>Set between a lively Bangalore school and the silence of low Earth orbit <em>Lilly and the Sky-Root</em> is a fast STEM-driven adventure about curiosity teamwork and the courage to ask real questions-even when the adults aren't ready for the answers.</p><p>Perfect for readers who love science mystery and kids who save the day with their brains.</p>