[LM_NET] BOOK: Countdown by Mikaelsen

["fmuller@tellurian.com" <fmuller@TELLURIAN.COM>]

Mikaelsen, Ben._Countdown._Hyperion, 1996 [0-7868-1208-7]
Two parallel stories meet at the end of this 246 page book.
One is of Elliot, a student chosen to fly on the Shuttle.
The other is of Vincent, a Massai herder who is struggling
with an internal conflict of the old ways and the ways he
learns from the school and hospital near his village.  Near
the end of the story the Massai boy is at the school and
hears a Ham Radio message from the boy on the shuttle.  The
two fourteen-year-olds defend their own cultures and way of
lives and argue in a way which gets the whole world
interested.  Along the way, the reader learns much about
astronautics and the Massai way of life.  It is a great
discussion starter about the values of various cultures.


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Frederick Muller, Librarian
Halsted Middle School Library
Newton, NJ  07860
fmuller@tellurian.net
My book  comments are compiled at:
http://www.halsted.org/br.htm

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