The Mount

* Philip K. Dick Award Winner
* Best of the Year: Locus, Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle, Book Magazine
* Nominated for the Impac Award

Charley is an athlete. He wants to grow up to be the fastest runner in the world, like his father. He wants to be painted crossing the finishing line, in his racing silks, with a medal around his neck. Charley lives in a stable. He isn't a runner, he's a mount. He belongs to a Hoot: The Hoots are alien invaders. Charley hasn't seen his mother for years, and his father is hiding out in the mountains somewhere, with the other Free Humans. The Hoots own the world, but the humans want it back. Charley knows how to be a good mount, but now he's going to have to learn how to be a human being.

Author: Carol Emshwiller
Publisher: Small Beer Press
Published: 08/01/2002
Pages: 242
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.18h x 5.56w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9781931520034
Audience: Young Adult

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.4
Point Value: 9
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 86820 / Mount


Award: Nebula Awards - Nominee


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/08/2002 pg. 34
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2002 pg. 976
BookPage 08/01/2002 pg. 20
Booklist 08/01/2002 pg. 1936
Asimov's Science Fiction 04/01/2003 pg. 132
Women's Review of Books 05/01/2003 pg. 11
School Library Journal 06/01/2003 pg. 175

About the Author
Carol Emshwiller is the author of six novels including Carmen Dog, Ledoyt, Mister Boots, The Secret City, and Leaping Man Hill, as well as collections of short fiction: Joy in Our Cause, Verging on the Pertinent, The Start of the End of It All, Report to the Men's Club, I Live with You, Master of the Road to Nowhere, and two volumes of Collected Stories. She grew up in Michigan and France. She lives in New York City.