Moonwind - Hardcover

Lawrence, Louise

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060237333 ISBN 13: 9780060237332

Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books, 1986

Synopsis

Awakened from a ten-thousand-year sleep, Bethkahn, an astral being, risks contact with Gareth, a poor Welsh teenager traveling to Earth's first permanent Moonbase, for aid in repairing her crippled starship and she unexpectedly falls in love

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From School Library Journal:

Grade 5 Up Lawrence has created another excitingly different and poetic tale of two teenagers in the 21st Century who win a trip to the first lunar base and are forever changed. Seventeen-year-old Gareth Johns, a Welsh poet, and Karen Angers, a gum-chewing American girl, approach their adventure with different expectations. While Karen is wowed by the sites and attempts to capture them in camera shots, Gareth tries to experience for himself the moon's isolation. A counterpoint to the story of Gareth and Karen is the desperate struggle of Bethkahn, an astral being who has been stranded on the moon for 10,000 years. Her only hope is to repair her ship with the help of a human. Against all physical instincts, Gareth comes to her aid by repairing the ship's stabilizer, and after experiencing the lunar "syndrome" he wrote his essay on, he decides to shed his physical being and join the lovely Bethkahn in her journey to the stars. In this tightly written novel, Lawrence has interwoven myths about the moon, a theory of astral evolution, social criticism, and a character undergoing adolescent hardships. This is a hauntingly poetic tale, bittersweet in its ending, and very thought provoking. Yvonne A. Frey, Peoria Public Library, Ill.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

Lawrence tells a compelling story of a young man who can choose immortality, but only if he sacrifices everything he knows and loves. Ages 12-up.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0060237333
• ISBN 13: 9780060237332
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 180