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Cover art for SHANGHAIED TO THE MOON
CHILDREN'S
Released: March 1, 2007

"Readers who enjoyed Daley's surer Space Station Rat (2005) will wonder what he was thinking. (Science fiction. 10-12)"
Straightforward sci-fi adventure veers off course into a black hole of pop psych in this confused outing. Read full book review >
Cover art for BOUNCING OFF THE MOON
FICTION
Released: April 1, 2001

"Despite the seeming plot by numbers: claustrophobic but probably okay for the YA audience, increasingly tedious for adults."
Second entry in a projected trilogy about the dysfunctional Dingillian family, though some of the ideas here harken back to an early Gerrold novel, When Harlie Was One. Read full book review >
Cover art for HIGHER EDUCATION
CHILDREN'S
Released: June 1, 1996

"Fans of the authors' previous works will be glad to know of this first entry in the Jupiter series, but those readers searching for a more expansive role for female space cadets will have to enroll elsewhere. (Fiction. 13+)"
 The trajectory of Rick Luban, 16, from high school washout to interplanetary space miner. Read full book review >