Red planet
Subtitle: a colonial boy on Mars
By: Robert A. Heinlein; illustrated by Clifford Geary
Contributors: Geary, Clifford N., ill; Geary, Clifford N., illustrator
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Published: 1951
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
Copyright date: 1949
Subjects: American Science fiction; Fiction
Description: A young colonist on Mars befriends a strange round creature called Willis who gets him into trouble when he goes away to school, but whose presence and friendship finally enable the colonials to negotiate a treaty with the Martians.
Notes: Dust jacket.
Table of contents: title: Willis; title: South colony, Mars; title: Gekko; title: Lowell Academy; title: Little pitchers have big ears; title: Flight; title: Pursued; title: The other world; title: Politics; title: "We're boxed in!"; title: Besieged; title: "Don't shoot"; title: "It's an ultimatum."; title: Willis.