by Random House Books for Young Readers
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| Sales Rank: | 20051 (lower is better) |
| Price as of: | 08/31/2008 7:12:43 AM MDT |
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| Release Date: | 1996-10-29 |
| Label: | Random House Books for Young Readers |
| Pages: | 80 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Publication Date: | 1996-10-29 |
| Published By: | Random House Books for Young Readers |
| ASIN: | 0679863745 |
| Category: | Book |
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Product Description
Illustrated in black-and-white. Jack and Annie are whisked forty years forward in time and land at an international space station on the moon. There they don space suits and go exploring the lunar surface in search of the fourth object needed to free the enchantress Morgan le Fay from a powerful spell.
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No Science in this Fiction - Reviewed on 2007-11-21
1 customer found this review helpful, 1 did not.
Did Mary Pope Osborne do any research before writing this book?
First of all, when Jack and Annie are inside the moon base, there is normal gravity. Then, when they let the air pressure out so they can go on a moon walk, the gravity gets weaker! GRAVITY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH AIR PRESSURE!
Secondly, while Jack and Annie are walking around on the moon's surface, an asteroid falls down from the sky and lands in front of them, blocking their way out of a valley.
Um.
An asteroid that size would have made a huge crater. We are talking megaton explosion. Jack and Annie should have been space dust.
I know, I know, what about my willing suspension of disbelief? These are books about a magic tree house where mice understand human speech and time travel is possible. But why couldn't they visit a more realistic version of the moon? Osborne could have looked up a few simple scientific facts, couldn't she?
I hate to think of little kids growing up thinking that gravity is caused by air pressure.
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Book Subjects
- Osborne, Mary Pope
- Juvenile Fiction
- Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction
- Children: Grades 3-4
- Action & Adventure - General
- Readers - Beginner
- Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic
- Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure
- Fiction
- Magic
- Moon
- Science fiction
- Time travel