Shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award, The YA Book Prize, CBI Book Of The Year Award and the CLIPPA Award. The book ends with Squirrelpaw noticing Highstones, which is at the edge of WindClan territory; they are almost home. Crossan's verse packs a punch as she examines the power that difference -- but also determination -- can wield. When Joe's older sister Angela rings for up dates, Joe hides how awful the apartment is, how he is "working" for just food.

The reviewer stated that "Hunter successfully weaves character, plot, and good writing into another readable story".Moonrise has been released in hardcover, paperback, and e-book formats, and has been translated into French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, German and Polish.

Joe makes a few small missteps, but he's a good, sweet kid who takes a big risk to be by his brother's side in the days leading to his brother's execution date. Ross Welford introduces Time Travelling with a Tortoise, the sequel to Time Travelling with a Hamster, and a whole new time travel adventure!Bova, because of his background, is noted to incorporate substantial real science into his stories and plots. Paul and Joanna Stavenger are desperately trying to keep their vision of colonizing the moon alive while many on Earth (as well as members of their own family) are doing their best to sabotage this mission. Unable to ignore the gaps in the case, Pip sets out to prove Sal’s innocence, beginning with interviewing his younger brother, Ravi. The original investigation concluded with most of the evidence pointing to Sal, who was found dead in the woods, apparently by suicide. Wow I did NOT know that she had another book coming out besides We Come Apart, which I still haven’t read, whoops.

The stepbrother had the procedure done after another responsibility shirking whiner tried to kill him. There are no aliens to fight or magic FTL drives (or FTL communication for that matter) and the drama comes primarily from the conflict between powerful individuals and groups of individuals. Ten years later, Ed is still on death row but now his execution date has been set, and so Joe heads down to Texas to see his brother for the first time in a decade and make the most of the time they have left together. Greg II, meanwhile, has convinced Mommy that he is stable, after years of therapy, and she can trust him with the Moonbase directorship. In fact Ed has to apply for special permission for the under 18 year old Joe to even be allowed to visit him.

The only downside is that the story is so internal that a feel for Joe's surroundings and the depth of some of the other characters are lacking. Polly Crosby tells ReadingZone about her novel, This Tale is Forbidden (Scholastic), a fractured fairy tale set in a dystopian world.