The Lion of Mars

By Jennifer L. Holm

A virus strikes Mars, leaving kids to uncover secrets and save their colony.

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272 pages· 42,389 words· Est. 6 hour read

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Bookroo's summary

Eleven-year-old Bell has only known life on Mars, where secrets abound and isolation is the norm. When a mysterious virus incapacitates the adults, Bell and his friends must step up. Can they uncover the truth behind their isolation and save their families? As they navigate this alien world, Bell discovers that courage and curiosity might just unite a planet. Join Bell on a thrilling journey where the stakes are high, and the future of Mars hangs in the balance. Will the children succeed where the adults have failed?

From the publisher

Blast off with New York Times bestselling and Newbery Honor-winning Jennifer L. Holm’s out-of-this-world new novel about a kid raised on Mars who learns that he can’t be held back by the fears of the grown-ups around him. Bell has spent his whole life - all eleven years of it - on Mars. But he’s still just a regular kid - he loves cats, any kind of cake, and is curious about the secrets the adults in the US colony are keeping. Like, why don’t have contact with anyone on the other Mars colonies? Why are they so isolated? When a virus breaks out and the grown-ups all fall ill, Bell and the other children are the only ones who can help. It’s up to Bell - a regular kid in a very different world - to uncover the truth and save his family … and possibly unite an entire planet. Mars may be a world far, far away, but in the hands of Jennifer L. Holm, beloved and bestselling author of The Fourteenth Goldfish, it can’t help but feel like home.

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