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About the Book
Boon on the Moon; John Huddles
Children; Sci-Fi; 216 Pages
Notable Kids Publishing (March 4, 2020)
When ten-year-old Byron “Boon” Barnett boards a rocket-ship for a move to the Moon with his family (and his irritating robot, José Ignacio), he’s expecting the time of his life in the lunar colony of Cosmopolis. What he’s not expecting is a stellar disaster that’ll demolish Cosmopolis before lunch. Boon insists he knows how to survive it, but people tend not to believe him about stuff. His parents have been lecturing him on the dividing line between using his imagination for fun and using it as an excuse for bad behavior. Suddenly it’s the dividing line between life and death.
About the Author

John Huddles is a Los Angeles-based screenwriter and director. Filmmaker Magazine called his sci-fi drama, The Philosophers, “sneakily beautiful, remarkably thoughtful … [an] adventure film of ideas … [with] bravura fantasy sequences.” In Boon On The Moon, the first book from The Booniverse, John extends his love of sci-fi/fantasy into storytelling for the page instead of the screen. John studied moviemaking at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles; international relations at Johns Hopkins University’s Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington D.C.; and history at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island—where he was editor-in-chief of the school’s student magazine and was named one of Brown’s first ever Undergraduate Writing Fellows.
Sam’s Review
Imagination can be both a gift and a curse. And for Byron, or, “Boon”, it is very much both. But one day, it goes too far. And he ends up getting temporarily banned from his home state of Arizona. Now, on his way to the place of his dreams, the moon, he makes friends and learns things about the moon he never knew. But his happiness is in danger. And so are the lives of his family and his friends. But, with a little imagination, and a little rule-breaking, he can save them. Right?
Boon on the Moon is lighthearted, incredibly funny, and absolutely adorable. The characters are well developed, and each has their own separate personalities. The only problem I did have was I couldn’t tell if it was in the past or the present, until we got to head to the moon. Which, I’m assuming, means that it’s in the future. But I couldn’t really tell, other than that.

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