Journey Outside (Newbery Library, Puffin) - Softcover

Steele, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140305882 ISBN 13: 9780140305883

Publisher: Puffin, 1973

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Puffin
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0140305882
• ISBN 13: 9780140305883
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 128