{"id":16,"date":"2007-08-08T22:01:45","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T02:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/08\/journey-between-worlds-by-sylvia-engdahl\/"},"modified":"2007-08-08T22:01:45","modified_gmt":"2007-08-09T02:01:45","slug":"journey-between-worlds-by-sylvia-engdahl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Journey Between Worlds, by Sylvia Engdahl"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"book-details\">\n<div id=\"book-title\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image15\" height=\"96\" alt=\"journey_between_worlds.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/journey_between_worlds.thumbnail.jpg\" \/>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Journey Between Worlds<\/div>\n<p><!-- #book-title --><\/p>\n<div id=\"book-author\">by Sylvia Engdahl<\/div>\n<p><!-- #book-author --><br \/>\nReviewed August 8, 2007.<br \/>\nG. P. Putnam\u2019s Sons (Penguin Young Readers Group), New York, 2006. Originally published in 1970. 240 pages.<br \/>\nStarred Review.<\/div>\n<p><!-- #book-details -->I would call <em>Journey Between Worlds<\/em> science fiction for girls. Although I\u2019m sure boys who like science fiction would enjoy it as well, the other-worldly setting isn\u2019t the main point of the story. Instead, Melinda Ashley\u2019s life is complicated by her father\u2019s gift of a trip to Mars, and it provides the background for difficult decisions.<\/p>\n<p>First, Melinda must decide how to react to a gift she didn\u2019t want, but that her father went to great lengths to get for her and is sure she\u2019ll be delighted about. On the way to Mars, she travels with someone else who is not excited about going there\u2014someone to reinforce her complaints. But then she meets a young man born on Mars, and all of her ideas are challenged.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, she has to consider which is more important: her world, her plans, the dreams she grew up with, or the unchanging, real things in people\u2019s hearts.<\/p>\n<p>I love this book, as I love all of Sylvia Engdahl\u2019s books. I like her heroines. They are people I\u2019d like to be friends with. They are faced with difficult decisions and rise to the challenge. I\u2019m delighted at this chance to read another of her books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Journey Between Worlds by Sylvia Engdahl Reviewed August 8, 2007. G. P. Putnam\u2019s Sons (Penguin Young Readers Group), New York, 2006. Originally published in 1970. 240 pages. Starred Review. I would call Journey Between Worlds science fiction for girls. Although I\u2019m sure boys who like science fiction would enjoy it as well, the other-worldly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","category-teen-fiction-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}