Countdown
By: Ben Mikaelsen.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Astronautics -- Fiction; Masai (African people) -- Fiction; Kenya -- Fiction
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.