Pub Date: March 13, 2012
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Code: 0980
Features: Price on Product - Canadian, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 08 to 12
Physical Info: 0.30" H x 7.40" L x 5.10" W ( 0.15 lbs) 80 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Science Fiction | General | Dystopian | Social Themes | New Experience
Description: Pattie and her family are among the last refugees to flee a dying Earth in an old spaceship. And when the group finally lands on the distant planet which is to be their new home, it seems that the four-year journey has been a success. But as they begin to settle this shiny new world, they discover that the colony is in serious jeopardy.
Brief description: Lloyd Bloom is a children's book author and illustrator. Some of his works include Yonder (Tony Johnston), The Green Book (Jill Paton Walsh), the Newbery Honor Book Like Jake and Me (Mavis Jukes), and the National Jewish Book Award-winner Poems for Jewish Holidays (Myra Cohn Livingston).
Review Quotes:
"The Green Book is a clever and beautifully shaped little combination of future fiction and metafiction. . .It is the record of the exodus of a group of Britons from a dying Earth to a new planet. . .The naïve courage of the children. . .saves the colony." --Starred, School Library Journal
"An enthralling story, flawlessly told." --The New Yorker