Mission to Moon Farm

July 15, 2016
Waiting for his parents after Secrets of Bearhaven (2016), Spencer deals with an imperiled member of his bear family.Reports from Professor Weaver (bear) and Uncle Mark (white human) that Spencer's parents will arrive safely at Bearhaven any day are all lies, which (olive-skinned) Spencer learns when he overhears them discuss the deception, which is to keep him from losing hope. Angry, Spencer plays hooky from bear school to go try to help his parents by himself--but he hardly gets out of their part of the forest before encountering Kirby, a lonely surveillance enthusiast determined to uncover the forest's strangeness. But when his bear best friend, Kate, who has followed him from Bearhaven, attempts to protect him from Kirby, Spencer cruelly shoos Kate away so Kirby won't spot her BEAR-COM. When Spencer returns to Bearhaven to apologize, he learns Kate never made it back--and the bears blame him. Mining Kirby for intel, Bearhaven learns Kate's fate, and it's very bad news bears. She's been abducted by Moon Farm, a toy factory covering for a black-market bear operation that sells to private collectors, circuses, or, worse, for parts, making for a high-stakes mission. Once there, they discover even worse things, progressing the overarching series plot. With characterization separated from the plot, occasionally plot needs result in bearly believable reasoning. While more stuffed bear than gruff bear, a fast adventure story. (Fantasy. 8-11)

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chlooe - Bearhaven: Mission To Moon Farm, by K.E. Rocha, is a really great book with a really magical plot. When Spencer found out that he got lied to that it was getting closer to find Spencer's parents, he got all angry and mad and walked out of the Bearhaven barrier. Secretly, Kate (a bear cub that is Spencer's best friend) followed Spencer out with him because she sniffed out that Spencer was out of Bearhaven. After Spencer got all his anger out, he figured out that Kate was captured because earlier, he bumped into a person named Kirby, and tried to protect Kate because of her bearcom (Bearhaven is a secret place) by covering her and yelling, "Go away! Leave us alone!". That was how Kate got captured. While Spencer was walking away, he found out that Kate was missing. That was how the whole story started. This story is about how Kate was captured and B.D., Professor Weaver, Yude, Aldo, and Spencer need to rescue her from Moon Farm. This book is really magical and an author like K.E. Rocha who thinks of creative things like BearCOMs or Bearhaven.