Moonwind [Paperback]

Louise Lawrence (Author), Louise Lawerence (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1987

One of two teenage winners of a trip to earth's first lunar base falls in love with an astral extraterrestrial who has been stranded on the moon for thousands of years and who needs his help to repair her spaceship so that she can return home.

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Editorial Reviews

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.

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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: HarperPrism (September 1987)
• ISBN-10: 0694056170
• ISBN-13: 978-0694056170
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,537,124 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An eerie and enthralling book..., August 8, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Moonwind (Hardcover)

reading (and re-reading) this book was always a thrill growing up, and I rather think it still would be even after all these years. The plot as I remember it has something to do with 2 kids from very different home backgrounds winning a contest that nets them a trip to a scientific compound on the moon. There they have some encounters with an alien who has been stranded there for a long, long time, all alone. Like most of Lawrence's books this has a certain darkness to it, but it was really moving, and not at all the typical kids-go-into-space-and-save-the-day sci-fi schlock.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Freaky, March 14, 2004

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Moonwind (Paperback)

This book concentrates on the spirit inside the flesh of our bodies. its about a kid who goes to the moon and starts trying to deal with questions he can't answer and wonders about the meaning of life. he meets a spirit-girl who would like to take him to her planet, if he helps her repair her ship, but his body would die before they made it there. Now Gareth has a choice to make. The ending is very disturbing and seems to promote suicide for those who want to roam free of their earthly bodies. I would definately not recomend this book.