Journey Outside
Published on 26. July 1979
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-0-14-030588-3 (ISBN)
Description
A Newbery Honor book
This fast-paced story is more than an adventure-it is a search for answers in a bewildering world that is as terrifying as it is beautiful.
Grandfather said they were headed for the Better Place, but Dilar suspected they were headed nowhere, simply following the dark underground river blindly. And so one night he leaped onto a shelf of rock and watched the flotilla of the Raft People disappear. And from there he found his way Outside, into a world so beautiful and strange he could only suppose he had died-a world of day, and sun, of trees and sky.
"A highly successful work that can be read as an adventure story, a fantasy, or as allegory"-School Library Journal
This fast-paced story is more than an adventure-it is a search for answers in a bewildering world that is as terrifying as it is beautiful.
Grandfather said they were headed for the Better Place, but Dilar suspected they were headed nowhere, simply following the dark underground river blindly. And so one night he leaped onto a shelf of rock and watched the flotilla of the Raft People disappear. And from there he found his way Outside, into a world so beautiful and strange he could only suppose he had died-a world of day, and sun, of trees and sky.
"A highly successful work that can be read as an adventure story, a fantasy, or as allegory"-School Library Journal
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Hawthorn
Australia
Publishing group
Penguin Random House Australia
Target group
Children/juvenile
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
US School Grade: Fifth Grade and over, Interest Age: From 10 years
Product notice
Paperback (digest)
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
163 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-030588-3 (9780140305883)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Mary Q. Steele (May 8, 1922–July 6, 1992) was a noted American author and naturalist. She wrote over twenty books, sometimes under the names Wilson Gage and J. N. Darby. One of her books, Journey Outside, was a Newbery Honor Book.