Promising the moon
By: by Stephen Krensky.
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780761351108
Subjects: Newspaper vendors -- Fiction; Newspapers -- Fiction; Hoaxes -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: Two newsboys in 1830s New York sell copies of the New York Sun reporting that a powerful telescope has found exotic animals and structures on the moon. Based on a true story.