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Herg\u00e9\u2019s comic-strip hero Tintin is a young reporter who has exciting and far-ranging adventures in company with his faithful dog, Snowy, and a large cast of characters, among them the curmudgeonly Captain Haddock (of Marlinspike Hall), the brilliant and deaf (which makes for complications) Professor Calculus, and the bumbling, bowler-hatted detective duo Thomson and Thompson.\u00a0 There are 24 Tintin books in all, among them Destination Moon<\/em> \u2013 originally published in 1953 \u2013 in which Professor Calculus joins a sabotage-ridden consortium attempting to land a man on the moon. In the sequel, Explorers on the Moon<\/em>, Tintin and friends all blast off for the moon, pursued by villains, and saddled with stowaways Thomson and Thompson.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/have-space-suit-193x300.jpg\") <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n Robert Heinlein\u2019s Have Space Suit \u2013 Will Travel<\/em> (Del Rey, 1985), originally written in 1958, features a bright high-school student, Kip Russell, who enters an advertising jingle contest in hopes of winning a trip to the moon. Instead, he wins a decrepit space suit \u2013 which he nicknames Oscar and manages to repair. He and Oscar then encounter a spaceship containing Peewee, an eleven-year-old girl genius, and her companion alien, a lemur-like creature from Vega known as the Mother Thing. All three are kidnapped by evil aliens, the Wormfaces, and taken to the moon, where they engineer a dangerous escape, and Peewee and Kip eventually end up on trial, struggling to save the entire human race. Sci-fi fans ages 11 and up will love it.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/moon-is-harsh-mistress-186x300.jpg\") <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n In Robert Heinlein\u2019s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress<\/em> (Orb Books, 1997), the moon is a former penal colony, still governed by a Warden, the representative of the Earth-based Authority, which now exploits lunar natural resources for huge profits. The oppressed natives (\u201cLoonies\u201d) \u2013 whose adaptation to the moon\u2019s low gravity prevents them from ever returning to Earth – eventually rise in revolt, under the leadership of Mannie, the narrator, a one-armed computer technician, the elderly Professor Bernardo de la Paz (exiled to the moon for political subversion), the radical (and gorgeous) Wyoming Knott, and a newly sentient computer nicknamed Mike, who has a brilliant brain and a low taste in jokes. Thought-provoking and discussion-promoting. For ages 13 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/first-men-in-moon-Wells-194x300.jpg\") <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n H.G. Wells\u2019s The First Men in the Moon<\/em> (Dover Publications, 2000) is a sci-fi classic, originally published in 1901, in which the narrator travels to the moon with Mr. Cavor, a physicist, who has invented an anti-gravity spaceship-lifting substance called cavorite. There they are captured by the Selenites, an intelligent insectoid race that lives beneath the moon\u2019s surface. The narrator eventually escapes, but Cavor is recaptured and stays behind, though he eventually manages to communicate with Earth by radio. When the Selenites discover humanity\u2019s propensity for war, however, all broadcasts are cut off and Cavor is never heard from again. For ages 13 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/feed-181x300.jpg\") <\/p>\n | | | | | | | |