This is the book considered by many the Crown Jewel of Heinlein’s legendary juveniles (juveniles they are called, but, as Heinlein maintained, he never wrote down to a kid and he considered these novels that anyone could enjoy). Kip is an ordinary kid graduating from ordinary Centerville High School in ordinary America. He happens to have an extraordinary dream, however—to travel into space and to walk on the moon. After serious effort, Kip acquires a decrepit space suit in a bogus contest. With cleverness, care, and a never-say-die attitude, Kip wills the space suit back into working order—and creates his own destiny in the process. It seems a guy with a space suit can be a highly desirable commodity when we happen to need a hero to fight alien domination and subjugation of the planet. And from there, a space suit might prove handy if someone must travel vast distances and take the case for human courage to far edges of the galaxy and beyond!
