Barbary

Barbary is a twelve-year-old girl who has spent a good deal of time in the foster system, enjoys magic tricks, and likes cats--one imparticular, named Mike.

When the story starts, she is awaiting placement on a shuttle that should take her to the space station. Her trip to her new family--where she

will be under the care of an old friend of her mother--has been repeatedly delayed. Barbary gets more an more nervous, because she is smuggling--and the adventure only gains momentum with the introduction of other beings--aliens approaching the space station!

This is an enjoyable book; the style and the heroine also make it a good novel for young adults. All in all, an enjoyable if quick read.

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LibraryThing member readinggeek451

Barbary is on her way to the space station to live with a new family, but she keeps being bumped from the shuttle by VIPs. An alien ship is approaching Earth, but Barbary is more concerned with her own secret.

Okay, but definitely a children's book.

LibraryThing member ChrisRiesbeck

Fairly thin juvenile SF. Though there's an alien vessel entering the solar system, almost the entire short novel is about the mishaps of Barbary as she smuggles her cat onto a research space station. After quite a few chapters, we get a few brief glimpses into what makes Barbary and her "sister"

Heather tick. More would have been good. There's a good attempt to describe what it's like to live inside a spinning wheel, but the outside -- hard vacuum in every direction -- is never well conveyed.

Not bad as in throw against the wall, but nothing to seek out.

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