Under the moon
By: Rowena Akinyemi ; [illustrated by Peter Richardson]
Contributors: Richardson, Peter, ill
Series: Oxford bookworms library. Fantasy & horror. Stage 1
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9780194789226; 9780194788908; 9780194788250
Subjects: Problems, exercises; Textbooks for foreign speakers; Reading comprehension; English language; Fiction; Readers (Adult); Space colonies; Environmental disasters
Description: It is the year 2522, and the planet Earth is dying. The Artificial Ozone Layer is only 300 years old, but it is breaking up fast. Now the sun is burning down on Earth with a white fire. There is no water. Without water, nothing can live. Trees die, plants die, animals die, people die... In a colony under the moon, people wait for news - news from home, news from the planet Earth. And in a spaceship high above Earth, a young man watches numbers on a computer screen. The numbers tell a story, and the young man is afraid. The planet Earth is burning, burning, burning... - Back cover.