Space Case

Space Case by Stuart Gibbs is about twelve-year-old Dashiell (nickname: Dash) Gibson in the year 2041... which means the story takes place in the future! Dash's family was picked to be one of the few people that got to live on the moon for three years (I think). His family got to go for free, as his mom (Rose Harris) is a lunar geologist, and his dad (Stephen Gibson) is a mining specialist. (Dash has a six-year-old sister named Violet.) But guess what? Life on the moon stinks. Moon Base Alpha is tiny, and is full of people, especially a really annoying family that only got to be there because they paid: the Sjobergs. Normally, Dash is super bored, but when Dr. Ronald Holtz, the base physician and loved by many is found dead. It appeared that he went out the air lock without out a companion, one of the best ways to get yourself killed. Why? Your spacesuit might not be on right, and there would be no one to check it. So why did Holtz go out alone and in the middle of the night? Since Nina and almost everyone else on the base thinks it was just an accident, it's up to Dash to find out who did it; yes, he's sure that it was a murder. He knew Dr. Holtz wouldn't go out alone, and that he wasn't going crazy. But who did it? He ends up with a number of suspects: the Sjobergs, Chang Kowalski, Daphne Merritt, and more. And when he meets Zan Perfonic (a woman), she tells him that he is the only she could find that believed what she did; that it was a murder. Then Kira Howard comes to the base, and ends up becoming his friend. Will Dashiell and Kira find the murderer? What will the murderer do if they find out they're on his or her trail?
If you read this and love it, there is another Moon Base Alpha novel, called Spaced Out.

This book was quite fun, although, there was a lot of name-calling (well, more than usual) in it.

But for those who love a good mystery and the ideas of what the future might hold, this is a fun book.

Thanks for reading!

- Maria