A Michael L. Printz Honor Book

In Sally Gardner's stunning novel, set in a ruthless regime, an unlikely teenager risks all to expose the truth about a heralded moon landing.

What if the football hadn't gone over the wall. On the other side of the wall there is a dark secret. And the devil. And the Moon Man. And the Motherland doesn't want anyone to know. But Standish Treadwell -- who has different-colored eyes, who can't read, can't write, Standish Treadwell isn't bright -- sees things differently than the rest of the "train-track thinkers." So when Standish and his only friend and neighbor, Hector, make their way to the other side of the wall, they see what the Motherland has been hiding. And it's big...One hundred very short chapters, told in an utterly original first-person voice, propel readers through a narrative that is by turns gripping and darkly humorous, bleak and chilling, tender and transporting.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 02/12/2013
ISBN: 9780763665531
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.40w x 1.20d
Award: Costa Book Awards - Winner
Award: Guardian Children's Fiction Prize - Nominee
Award: Michael L. Printz Award - Honor Book
Award: Tayshas Reading - Commended

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2012
Publishers Weekly 12/17/2012
Booklist 01/01/2013 pg. 100
Voice of Youth Advocates 02/01/2013 - Recommended - Better Than Most
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 03/01/2013 pg. 332
Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2013 pg. 100
School Library Journal 03/01/2013 pg. 158
PW Best Children's Books 11/11/2013 pg. 26
Booklist Ed Choice Youth 01/01/2014 pg. 14
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2013 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style
BookPage 03/01/2013

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 157172 / Maggot Moon
Reading Level: 4.5 / Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus / Point Value: 5