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From: fritz@hpfclp.UUCP (fritz)
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Subject: Looking for obscure juveniles
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Date: Mon, 15-Apr-85 21:52:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 15 21:52:00 1985
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Nf-From: hpfclp!fritz    Apr 15 18:52:00 1985

It's worked for other people, so what the heck...

Out of perverse curiosity, I'd like to find the names & authors of the
first two science-fiction ("juvenile sci-fi" is probably closer) books
I ever read, in 3rd and 4th grade.

The first was a rather slim tome.  I only remember two things about it:
1) the cover was hot pink, and 2) one scene in the story:  the hero[ine?]
is, I believe, on some foreign planet, talking to the [military?] leader
of the natives.  They are in a tizzy because of something they call 
"The Seed".  "The Seed?" asks our hero/ine, "What can be so dangerous
about a seed?"  ...and you turn the page, which shows a 2-page illustration
of The Seed -- which makes the local mountain range look like pebbles.
It's got some kind of tendrils latched into the mountains, and I forget
what happens from there.

The second one might have been called "Rusty's Spaceship".  It's a
thoroughly silly story about some boys who build a play spaceship out
of wood, and a very silly alien who needs a spaceship to get back to
his home.  Only he can't remember where it is.  So he tacks this magical
aluminum foil (one half of his Emperor's spaceship, which he had been
sent to find?) onto the front of the ship, and they go cruising around
the solar system trying to figure out where our friendly ET came from.
Magic pills take care of little problems like vacuum decompression,
oxygen & food starvation, etc.


Anybody recognize these gems?  Please MAIL any responses (we don't need
a repeat of the "Mindkiller" avalanche, although I doubt as many people
will recognize these books!).

Thanks,

Gary Fritz
Hewlett Packard
Ft Collins, CO
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