Scavengers in space [Unknown Binding]

Alan Edward Nourse (Author)

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• Unknown Binding
• ASIN: B00005XUKV
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,440,350 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars This book made me a reader, November 23, 2002

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This review is from: Scavengers in space

I think I read this book two dozen times in Elementary and then Middle School.

It's a juvenile science fiction books that should still hold up today, which, along with two other Nourse books, The Trouble on Titan and Star Surgeon, is an excellent book for a young reader should still hold up well today, even though it was written long before we put a man into space!

This book deals with sibling rivalry, inadequacies, self-doubts, fears and the concept of the little guy versus the big corporate monopoly. Set on Mars and in the Asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter it's a murder who done it as twin boys Tom and Greg Hunter try to find out why their father died in space and if it really was an accident or not.

We look at the very possible future of mining in the asteroids, the realities of life in space set against an adventure narrative.

Excellent for kids between 9 and 12.

5.0 out of 5 stars just because..., October 20, 2011

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C. PETY "geckofan" (San Antonio, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scavengers in space (Mass Market Paperback)

haven't read it but saw Capt Jack Harkness reading it on Torchwood so it can't be bad!! Will update my review when I do...