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Countdown

Countdown

by Ben Mikaelsen

First published: 1996

Description

In two parallel stories, a fourteen-year-old boy who is NASA's first Junior Astronaut and a fourteen-year-old Maasai herder in Kenya both edge into maturity while questioning their family traditions.

Subjects

Juvenile fiction Masai (African people) Fiction Astronautics Maasai (African people)
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