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Akinyemi, Rowena.

Under the moon / Rowena Akinyemi ; [illustrated by Peter Richardson]. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2008. - 56 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. - Oxford bookworms library. Fantasy & horror. Stage 1 . - Oxford bookworms library. Fantasy & horror. Stage 1. .

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.

ISBN: 9780194789226 (pbk.) 0194789225 (pbk.) 9780194788908 (pack) 0194788903 (pack)

LCCN: 2011380024

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Readers.
Space colonies--Juvneile fiction.
Environmental disasters--Juvenile fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Moon--Juvenile fiction.

LC Class. No.: PE1126.A556 / U634 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 428.6