Science Fiction for Young Readers: Spacer and Rat
Summary:
“Jack is a kid who grew up on Freedom Station. He works in a bar and can tell the Earthies from the Spacers. He thinks he knows everything about Earthies, but that was before Kit showed up. Kit is just a normal Earthie except for what she carries with her. When Jack finds out Kit’s secret, he feels he has no choice but to help her. Even if it is illegal. Even if it means risking their lives in space.”
Margaret Bechard has naming colony and ship names after Shakespearean characters and science fiction icons from the twentieth century. Thematically, the story considers both the despair of a solar system which has never succeeded in solving its health, political, or environmental problems, coupled with the possibilities that open up in the mind of the protagonist who begins to see the cosmos he inhabits, in a whole new light. A quick, albeit light read for young readers of science fiction.
- Reading level: Young Adult
- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Roaring Brook Press (September 15, 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1596430583
- ISBN-13: 978-1596430587
