"Save the Moon! Few of her fellow Moonsters realized the danger they were in. But Maria Looney knew that she had to get to Mars to discover the terrible secret that 'Digger' Mecks had tried to tell her before he lost consciousness."
Jerome M. Beatty Jr. (December 9, 1916 — July 31, 2002) was a 20th-century American author of children's literature. He was also an accomplished feature writer for magazines. Beatty served in the United States Army, achieving the rank of corporal, and is buried at the Massachusetts National Cemetery.