Journey Outside - Softcover

Steele, Mary Q.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140305882 ISBN 13: 9780140305883

Publisher: Puffin Books, 1979

Synopsis

A Newbery Honor book

This fast-paced story is more than an adventure—it is a search for answers in a bewildering world that is as terrifying as it is beautiful. 
 
Grandfather said they were headed for the Better Place, but Dilar suspected they were headed nowhere, simply following the dark underground river blindly. And so one night he leaped onto a shelf of rock and watched the flotilla of the Raft People disappear. And from there he found his way Outside, into a world so beautiful and strange he could only suppose he had died—a world of day, and sun, of trees and sky.
“A highly successful work that can be read as an adventure story, a fantasy, or as allegory”—School Library Journal

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Grandfather said they were headed for the Better Place, but Dilar suspected they were headed nowhere, simply following the dark underground river blindly. And so one night he leaped onto a shelf of rock and watched the flotilla of the Raft People disappear. And from there he found his way Outside, into a world so beautiful and strange he could only suppose he had died-a world of day, and sun, of trees and sky.

About the Author:

Mary Q. Steele (May 8, 1922–July 6, 1992) was a noted American author and naturalist. She wrote over twenty books, sometimes under the names Wilson Gage and J. N. Darby. One of her books, Journey Outside, was a Newbery Honor Book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0140305882
• ISBN 13: 9780140305883
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128