George & The Blue Moon
Author: Stephen Hawking
Author: Lucy Hawking
Book 5 in the George series
Pages: 336
Published: 2017
Age: 7+
George and his best friend, Annie have been selected as junior astronauts - part of a programme that trains up young people for a trip to Mars in the future. This is everything they've ever wanted - they get to be a part of up-to-the minute space discoveries and meet a bunch of new friends who are as fascinated by the universe as they are.
But when they arrive at space camp, George and Annie quickly learn that strange things are happening - on Earth as well as up in our skies. Mysterious space missions are happening in secret, and the astronaut training they're undertaking gets scarier and scarier . . .
The fifth adventure in this series by Lucy and Stephen Hawking - also containing up-to-the-minute scientific facts and information by the world's leading scientists.
About the George Series
Books in series order
- 1.George's Secret Key to the Universe(2007)
- 2.George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt(2009)
- 3.George and the Big Bang(2011)
- 4.George and the Unbreakable Code(2014)
- 5.George & The Blue Moon(2017)
- 6.George and the Ship of Time(2019)
Reading age: 8+ years
This series should be read in order.
Take a rollercoaster ride through the vastness of space and discover the mysteries of physics, science and the Universe with George, his new friends next door – the scientist Eric and his daughter, Annie – and a super-intelligent computer called Cosmos. Cosmos can take them to the edge of a black hole and back again . . . Or can it?
And, who else would like to get their hands on Cosmos?
A funny and hugely informative romp through space, time and the Universe from the most eminent theoretical physicist since Albert Einstein.

