TY - BOOK AU - Holm,Jennifer L. TI - The lion of Mars (Lit. Circle) SN - 9780593121818 U1 - F HOL 23 PY - 2021/// CY - New York PB - Random House KW - Boys KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Viruses KW - Fiction KW - Agoraphobia KW - Book sets KW - csd KW - Literature circles KW - Mars (Planet) KW - Science fiction KW - lcgft N1 - OBOB Elementary 2023-2024; Includes bibliographical references (page 257); Pub Weekly, December 2020; Kirkus Review, December 2020; 4.0; 3-6; 530L; Lexile N2 - Bell has spent his whole life--all eleven years of it--on Mars. But he's still just a regular kid--he loves cats, any kind of cake, and is curious about the secrets the adults in the US colony are keeping. Like, why don't have contact with anyone on the other Mars colonies? Why are they so isolated? When a virus breaks out and the grown-ups all fall ill, Bell and the other children are the only ones who can help. It's up to Bell--a regular kid in a very different world--to uncover the truth and save his family--and possibly unite an entire planet ER -