This one is lots of fun and Lummox is a great character, and the story a good one. Lots of scenarios as the main character progresses. One of the most “adult” of the juvenile novels. I admit I like kid-in-space-service stuff, and that’s what this is.Ī favorite of many, and with good reason. This was an early favorite that stayed that way through reading all of them. Without further ado, here are my rankings of Heinlein’s juvenile novels: Rank Also, if you really want to speak of endings, there is the one for Po dkayne of Mars, which Heinlein eventually re-wrote after a storm of protest from both publisher and readers. Heinlein just couldn’t seem to wrap things up in many of these books. It just plain stops, when it should have had at least one more chapter, two more would have been better. Of the twelve novels here, Between Planets is the worst offender. Heinlein seems to have his problems with them while writing these books. A fourteenth novel, Podkayne of Mars, is often listed as a “Heinlein juvenile”, although Heinlein himself did not consider it to be one.Ī word about endings. The dozen novels are not a true “series” in that they do not share any characters and do not form a strict chronological series the later novels are not sequels to the earlier ones.Ī thirteenth, Starship Troopers, was submitted to Scribner’s but rejected and was instead published by Putnam as an adult SF novel.
The twelve novels were published by Scribner’s between 19, which together tell, in a way, the story of space exploration. The Heinlein juveniles are the young adult novels written by Robert A.
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