My Trip to Mars – William Ferguson

This story is about a little boy that got freaked out by this one magazine about alien invasions. So the little boy thought that his parents were abducted by real aliens the next day because nobody was there. He actually goes to Mars to try to find his family. So if you like books about subways, missing school, falling in a crater on Mars, sneaking into a spaceship, jail cells, trained dogs, and humorous parents all packed into one whole short story,