Maurice on the Moon
Daniel Barth
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(Funderstanding, LLC, May 28, 2012)
Educators ... need a fun educational book that your students will actually enjoy reading? Parents ... do you wish your kids would actually want to read?Maurice on the Moon is an... educational fantasy science fiction adventure book that kids find fun and engaging!Mrs. Seabourne, ninth grade reading intervention teacher at South East High School (inner city of South Gate, CA), on Dr. Daniel Barth's guest teaching lesson combining Maurice on the Moon with science lessons. "My students aren't shy. If they hadn't liked your [Daniel Barth's] book, or they thought the science lesson wasn't worthwhile, you would have heard about it! The fact that they were engaged for the entire time without misbehavior or disruption says a great deal!" She even had students come into class asking, "Are we reading Maurice on the Moon today?"Maurice on the Moon is a science fiction adventure book for kids about a teen growing up on the Moon, his adopted homeland. Maurice hates the Moon and dreams of leaving it for Earth, the big jewel in the lunar sky that taunts him and where life would be so much better. He can't understand why his parents left Earth, making him work at a mining company whenever he isn't in school and where he's stuck living in a crater! His parents have dreams of gaining citizenship on their adopted planet while Maurice brainstorms ways to get away from deadly radiation and frozen lava to a home where he doesn't have to wear a pressure suit and helmet just to go outside and play. Maurice's mischievous ways even have him considering a stolen ride on a space liner! But leaving home isn't as easy as it seems and paradise doesn't always keep its promises!In this realistic science fiction book, follow Maurice and his best friend Cassie, as they jump over people, avoid landslides, search for helium and more - all things kids do on the Moon, in this fantasy space series. **Maurice on the Moon is a Common Core reading and science resource. **The kindle version does NOT have a glossaryMaurice on the Moon is the first book in The Maurice Series, a science fiction series of books geared towards teens. If you're looking for more fantasy fiction for teens, also read the second book, The Doomed Colony of Mars and the newly released third book, Crisis on the Far Side!