TY - SER
KW - teenagers
KW - orphans
KW - Three Rivers Arts Festival
KW - grandparents
KW - robots
AU - Gene Hunt
AB - On a Western Pennsylvania farm, orphaned twins Vernon and Junior Smith, 13, wake to a 700-foot spaceship that's been delivered in the backyard. The fossil-hunter grandfather who raises the boys is away on an expedition, so when the state tax collector delivers a bill for sales tax, the boys must evade him. They enter the rocket and blast off in a bid to raise the owed money by way of interstellar trade.
C1 - 2005
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Downtown
C4 - Children’s; Science Fiction; Adventure; Young Adult
CY - Brooklyn
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - On a Western Pennsylvania farm, orphaned twins Vernon and Junior Smith, 13, wake to a 700-foot spaceship that's been delivered in the backyard. The fossil-hunter grandfather who raises the boys is away on an expedition, so when the state tax collector delivers a bill for sales tax, the boys must evade him. They enter the rocket and blast off in a bid to raise the owed money by way of interstellar trade.
PB - Handprint Books
PP - Brooklyn
PY - 2005
RN - Gene Hunt (1922-2015), born in Brooklyn, was a World War II veteran and had a long career as an advertising copywriter. He lived in Cranberry Twp., Butler County.
EP - 142 p.
TI - The Accidental Spaceship
ER -