num_pages: 32
description: When a boy discovers a single-propeller airplane in his closet he does what any young adventurer would do: He flies it into outer space! Millions of miles from Earth the plane begins to sputter and quake its fuel tank on empty. The boy executes a daring landing on the moon . . . but there's no telling what kind of slimy slithering tentacled fang-toothed monsters lurk in the darkness! (Plus it's dark and lonely out there.) Coincidentally engine trouble has stranded a young Martian on the other side of the moon and he's just as frightened and alone.
language: English
title: The Way Back Home
publisher: Philomel Books