SOLVED. Childrens/ YA Science Fiction chapter book. Main characters are making a homestead on another planet (possibly Mars)? Read around 2006-2009. [s]

[Eli]

A teacher read this book to my late-elementary class (4th or 5th grade) around 2006-2009. I remember that the book was about a small group of people who were farming on another planet. Specifically I remember them describing the grass as being glass-like and fragile. The book was in English and I think the cover had a green sky with pink grass on it(?)

[Kris]

Eli, do you think this is the same book that Laura is looking for here -- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... ?

[Eli]

I think it absolutely is that book! Wow, that was quick!

[Eli]

Eli wrote: "I think it absolutely is that book! Wow, that was quick!"
Wanted to be clear, I think the book I was thinking of was The Green Book by Jill Paton Walsh

[Kris]

Your description of the grass reminded me of an older request, so I searched the group's Discussion Posts for: grass glass.


Here's the Google Books preview of The Green Book by Jill Paton Walsh:

https://books.google.com/books?id=c3Q... There are different cover images.

Quotes from the book:
- The gray glass grass broke and crumbled and disappeared into the black earth under the plowshare.
- But as soon as we all had boots on, we could walk over them safely, for the growth was crushed beneath the soles, as fragile and as crunchy to walk on as the frost-stiffened grass of winter on Earth. We are walked over the crisp and...

Should we mark your request as Solved?

[Eli]

Yes please! Thank you again

[Kris]

Great. It's a popular book - requested and found eight times in this group.