In spite of this somewhat contrived conclusion, Hugh and Helen's world and their dilemma seem so achingly real that readers will cheer the characters' valor and take away much food for thought. Perhaps a bit too fortuitously, an ``alternate careers service'' now comes to town and gives them a new direction-living on a farm. Helena lands Hugh a job in her father's colliery, but neither of them can endure the desperate treadmill engendered by their country's shrinking resources. He is of the chronically unemployed, subsisting on the dole and scavenging, for example, mining 20th-century landfills for reusable materials. Although she is well-off, she faces an uncertain future competing for the few remaining jobs. From School Library Journal: Grade 5 Up Lawrence has created another excitingly different and poetic tale of two teenagers in the 21st Century who win a trip to the first lunar base. Both Americans and Russians have established large, permanent moon bases by this time. Book by Lawrence, Louise 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Hugh and Helena fall for each other after he rescues her from difficulties in decaying downtown Cardiff. It is approximately one hundred years after the first space flights and lunar landings, which would make the year sometime around A.D. Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when. Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified. One of them, Gareth, a rebellious Welsh child, falls in love with an alien, Bethkahn, after the two meet on a couple of brief encounters. Urn:oclc:877458098 Republisher_date 20120809190021 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120808212633 Scanner (Keeper of the Universe) creates a frighteningly possible near-future dystopia, with a Britain brought to the brink of collapse by Thatcherism, depletion of fossil fuels, worldwide depression and rising sea levels as the setting for an unlikely but ultimately triumphant romance. Harper & Row, 1986 - Astral projection - 180 pages. Moonwind is a 1986 science fiction novel by English author Louise Lawrence about two teenagers winning a trip to the Moon.

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Moonwind by Louise Lawrence