Book description
School's out on the planet Tarshish...forever.
Humans have established a thriving colony on the planet Tarshish, until a native species of semi-insectoids awakens from a long incubation and attacks the colony. Only the children survive--and a computer.
The computer teaches the children how to form their own community. A community…
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1 author picked The Innocent as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book is short but to-the-point and extremely entertaining. One of its best qualities is how much sense it actually made, how the author thought through what would happen if a bunch of preteens were abandoned on a planet with only a computer to aide them. These are some shrewd kids, making sensible decisions—like lowering the marriage age to thirteen, which is honestly hilarious.
The author really handled his wonderful characters very well, capturing the reality of life and human beings without resorting to cliché cop-outs. I was pleasantly surprised by how good this book turned out to be.
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