by Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger, Dina Anastasio · Boxtree Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780752206691
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«Apollo 13: The Junior Novelization» is the junior novelization of the movie Apollo 13, with text by Dina Anastasio based on the book by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger, published by Boxtree Ltd in 1995 in paperback (96 pages, in English).
The Apollo 13 mission launches normally, but at the thirteenth minute of the thirteenth hour of the thirteenth day something goes wrong: an onboard failure endangers the lives of the three astronauts and turns their journey to the Moon into a fight for survival. This adaptation for young readers follows the crew's attempt to return to Earth using the lunar module as a life raft, based on the movie starring Tom Hanks.
Novelization first published in the United Kingdom in 1995 by Sapling, an imprint of Boxtree Ltd, and in the United States by Grosset & Dunlap. Includes 8 pages of color photos from the movie.
Recommended for young readers interested in space exploration and in real survival stories from the space race.
Jeffrey Kluger is an American editor at large at Time magazine and author of thirteen books on various topics, such as The Narcissist Next Door (2014); Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio (2005); The Sibling Effect (2011); and Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (1994). The latter work was the basis for Ron Howard's film Apollo 13 (1995). He is also the author of two novels for young adults: Nacky Patcher and the Curse of the Dry-Land Boats (2007) and Freedom Stone (2011), and one novel for adults, Holdout (2021).
