Rocket Ship
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- $2.99
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- $2.99
Publisher Description
Lincoln and Gary are best friends planning a simple trip to the night rock in the sky. However, they quickly find out that “easier said than done” is far more than just an outdated adage; it is a reality, for the dreamers face obstacle after obstacle in trying to gather the materials they need to build their ship. Not only that, but when their plan is discovered, their two-man field trip becomes much more than that. Now, the captain and the general will have to lead a rescue mission, one of far greater importance than they ever imagined. What would you do? Save only yourself or risk it all to save the lives of others as well as your own?
Rocket Ship is the miraculous, thrilling story of two friends, a tale of two hopefuls, two dreamers, two rescuers and the extremes they go through to save one another and others like them, before the world they live in destroys them all.
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Two disaffected seventh graders decide that the solution to their troubled lives is to build a rocket ship in an offbeat adventure that toys with science fiction and magical realism. Together, Gary and Lincoln design the ship and attempt to collect needed materials, while dealing with bullies, dismissive adults, and curious classmates. When word of their scheme to reach the Moon spreads, they find they're not the only ones looking for an escape from reality. Soon, the project is a communal effort, one that challenges their resolve. Told in an almost dreamlike fashion in present-tense narration, the story unfolds with painstaking leisure, weighed down by minute details and philosophical asides ("Middle school is where the molding begins, smoothens, and then hardens, and the cafeteria is the potter's wheel. It's a good thing there is chocolate milk, for every explorer and discoverer knows that it is, most definitely and undeniably, a good thing"). With such purple prose and ambiguous subtext how much of this is real, how much is fantasy? it's a story that's hard to categorize. Ages 9 12.
