Take a photo of a barcode or cover
3.68 AVERAGE
3.68 AVERAGE
I haven’t read this book since I was a 10-year-old in 2002 but I definitely remember really really loving enjoying this short quirky book I highly recommend it for any fifth graders who are above their reading level as I was. Especially those who enjoy any type of utopian novels.
emotional
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
My fifth grade teacher read this book to us over the course of a couple of weeks, and it stuck with me so much that I spent about eight or nine years tracking down the title, author and a copy of the book. It is a simple, sweet story, but one that should be shared with children and adults alike more often. This book is close to being pretty much out of print, and very much forgotten, which is a shame.
I loved the concept and the descriptive writing is, as always from JPW, wonderfully evocative. I wanted it to be longer and a little less simple, although, as it is written from a child’s point of view, it is as it is.
The moth creatures were amazing and the scene where they are playing with the children is beautiful.
Lack of communication between the group, both before departing Earth and during their troubles, causes all sorts of problems, including multiple copies of the same book in a library of few.
The moth creatures were amazing and the scene where they are playing with the children is beautiful.
Lack of communication between the group, both before departing Earth and during their troubles, causes all sorts of problems, including multiple copies of the same book in a library of few.
adventurous
hopeful
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I read this first when I was at school about 25-30 years ago and this is just as good today as it was back then. Definitely give this a read, it's a quick book to get through. This is one of the books that started my love of dystopian and post apocalyptic fiction.
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I must have read this shortly after it was published in 1982, and it’s stuck with me all these years. I’ve looked for it the last couple of years since I now work at a library information desk and I wanted to recommend it. I finally found it and re-read it to make sure it’s what I fondly remembered. It is! I will be offering this to kids who like this kind of story.
My first book by Jill Paton Walsh and I've re-read it several times since the first time. I love it!!
Read this in the gifted class at my elementary school and bits of it stuck with me.