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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.

First sentence: Bitter wind from Crazy Peak tugged at the sage-brush as fourteen-year-old Elliot Schroeder coaxed his big buckskin horse back toward the ranch.

Year

1996

Language

English

Publisher

Tandem Library

Editions

1

ISBN

9780613034951

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