title: Horizon (Horizon, Book 1)
author:  Scott Westerfeld 
description: Gr 58While traveling to an international engineering competition, four young teens find themselves stranded when their plane crashes in a menacing, inhospitable jungle. Along with four other teens, the eight are the only survivors. They should be in the Arctic but are in a tropical jungle instead. How is this possible? Where are they? How do they get home? Westerfeld creates a world with vicious predatory creatures, malfunctioning physical forces, and realistic characters. The teens must work together to survive. Many are scientifically minded and frequently use math and science to solve problems. As the first of a planned seven-book series, this installment does a great deal of introducing (characters, setting, conflicts, etc.). This does not, however, detract from the pacing or development of the narrative. With a tie-in online video game, this sci-fi title will have multiple platforms to keep readers' interest between volumes. VERDICT Buy where science fiction and survival stories are popular. Expect a hold list for this one.Lisa Crandall, formerly at the Capital Area District Library, Holt, MI
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  # Beyond The Horizon
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Eugene O'Neill
  
  
  
      
  
  
  CHARACTERS
  
  
  
  
  
  JAMES MAYO, a farmer
  
  
  KATE MAYO, his wife
  
  
  CAPTAIN DICK SCOTT, of the bark "Sunda," her brother
  
  
  ANDREW MAYO and
  
  
  ROBERT MAYO, sons of James Mayo
  
  
  RUTH ATKINS,
  
  
  MRS. ATKINS, her widowed mother
  
  
  MARY,
  
  
  BEN, a farm hand
  
  
  DOCTOR FAWCETT.
  
  
  (The "right" and "left" of the stage directions are the audiences.)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### ACT ONE, SCENE ONE
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  **SCENE—** A section of country highway. The road runs diagonally from the
  left, forward, to the right, rear, and can be seen in the distance winding
  toward the horizon like a pale ribbon between the low, rolling hills with
  their freshly plowed fields clearly divided from each other, checkerboard
  fashion, by the lines of stone walls and rough snake fences.
  
  
    
  The forward triangle cut off by the road is a section of a field from the dark
  earth of which myriad bright-green blade