Have Spacesuit Will Travel - Robert A. Heinlein

Written in 1958, this book was another of Robert Heinlein's books for the youth market, and sadly his last. Rather fascinatingly, Heinlein once more makes use of his engineering background, this time with pressurised suits, to add scientific realism to the book in a very informatively entertaining manner. The story revolves around a teenaged boy in his last year of high school. He lives in a small town and is being raised by his father, who is regarded by the locals to somewhat of an eccentric for his tinkering and philosophical ways. Kip desires nothing more than to get his chance to go into space, and pins his hope on a jingle he writes for a contest for Skyway Soap. ...