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On the alien world of Zimmorrah, visitors Jim and Elly Mae discover a distress call that cannot be communicated through their usual telepathic link to the planet’s super‑cat friends, the Star Ka'ats. Guided by a painful, urgent feeling, the pair travel to a secluded island beneath a massive glass dome. There reside semi‑human plant people who are threatened by monstrous creatures that combine the traits of spiders and crabs. Together with the Ka'ats, Jim and Elly Mae must confront these crab‑spider beasts and protect the plant people from destruction.
First publish date: 1979
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Andre Norton
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