STAY ALIVE ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE MOON
What happens when you get the one thing you wanted most in life? Lonely 16-year-old farm girl Barbara Winton has been following one reality show for years. Then in an instant she goes from fangirl to participant when the call comes from Dr. Keegan Bright: She’s been selected out of a horde of applicants to join him on the Moon.
She’ll be one of his Bright Sparks, six students with expertise in STEM and plenty of their own ingenuity chosen to work with Dr. Bright and given big responsibilities to undertake new projects important to the growth of the colony. Her first task? Build a radar telescope using an entire crater on the far side of the Moon.
But Barbara soon learns that life on a burgeoning frontier outpost like the Moon is a far cry from safe, civilized Earth. The loner from farm country must find a way to weld a functional team out of fiercely independent thinkers. Not only are they a bit trickier to work with than farm robots, not only is the working environment incredibly dangerous—she also has to perform this miracle in front of millions of fans. . . .
Lexile Score: 770
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An engaging story, enjoyable characters, an interesting plot. Perhaps more than anything else, the authors convey a contagious love of the science and engineering.
I read it and enjoyed it myself (though I am long past the young adult stage). Our two boys (8 and 13) also really liked it.
The story has plenty of excitement, lots of interesting science, and occasional humor. And all of that without anybody getting shot! It's like the hopeful, forward-looking stories from the golden age of science fiction, but modernized. No dystopia here! More sophisticated kids than Heinlein's Farmer in the Sky, but at least as much science (and modernized, of course). Possibly it may prove as inspiring.
I got the eARC version because I was so intrigued by the sample chapters, and did not want to wait. To be sure it has a number of errors, but not so many that it was annoying to read.Posted on
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RAH would have loved this.Fantastic book. I hope the writers will return to this in the future.
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Gripping!I couldn't stop reading.
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