The Shepherd Moon

by Helen Mary Hoover

Book Overview

When a colonist from a forgotten artificial moon returns to Earth, thirteen-year-old Merry and her grandfather must battle to save their culture from the visitor's strange powers.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067063977X
• ISBN13: 9780670639779
• Release Date: April 1984
• Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
• Length: 149 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 1.0" x 1.0"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Excellent

This book is still a favourite today, and possibly the best written by HM Hoover. It resonates because I read it as a white child growing up in South Africa in the 1980's - and the society she describes in the book was incredibly simular to the one I lived in then.

A fascinating world, but a bit bare on plot.

Hoover is an excellent writer; the world she has built could supply the background for a novel several times the length. Unfortunately, the plot never quite comes together; events seem to occur with the main character an observer rather than an actor.