Farmer in the Sky

This audio book was pretty darn good. One of Earth's newest Eagle Scouts Bill Lermer has to leave his troop behind as he and dad are selected to go to Jupiter's moon Ganymeade. On top of that, his dad is getting remarried, and he had no idea ahead of time. returnreturnThe trip to Jupiter teaks forever and is boring, so ta da "lets invent space scouts". Its actually pretty interesting to see how they adapt the patrol method to the set up themselves. returnreturnOf course that gets in even more awkward when they get to Jupiter and find other scouts already there. How to councils merge? (My description makes this sound boring, but its not). returnreturnBill and his dad have to find a way to farm on the moon. Its hard work, and some of the settlers want to return to the over crowded earth, but there is no way to do so. The Socialist programs of Earth have made it impossible to pay to do anything, and some of these folks have just been put there because they appear to no longer be liked by their neighbors at home. returnreturnBill works hard to build his own farm, he is good to have neighbors that care and teach him the hard work. He doesn't get to make his scout meetings, but that's okay, he's falling in love with the farmers daughter. returnreturnYet another Heinileine Juvenile that is well worth reading.