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The novel is about colonists on Venus. The main characters are two young boys. The boys make friends with a comical, monkey-like primitive native, and also meet a crazy human hermit character. The characters are captured by a hostile native tribe, and offered to the tribe's giant snake monster god. As I recall, the hero kills the monster with a grenade.

I read this novel when I was in the fifth grade (in the early 1970s), as part of an advanced reading program, but the book's style seems earlier, from the 1940s or 50s perhaps. This was a hardcover novel, and as far as I can remember the jacket illustration was a simple sketch, almost a line drawing, with green and beige, showing the snake monster. I recall no interior illustrations. Trappers of Venus does not ring any bell for me. The writing style, as I remember it, seems reminiscent of Lester Del Rey.

The novel is about colonists on Venus. The main characters are two young boys. The boys make friends with a comical, monkey-like primitive native, and also meet a crazy human hermit character. The characters are captured by a hostile native tribe, and offered to the tribe's giant snake monster god. As I recall, the hero kills the monster with a grenade.

I read this novel when I was in the fifth grade (in the early 1970s), as part of an advanced reading program, but the book's style seems earlier, from the 1940s or 50s perhaps.

The novel is about colonists on Venus. The main characters are two young boys. The boys make friends with a comical, monkey-like primitive native, and also meet a crazy human hermit character. The characters are captured by a hostile native tribe, and offered to the tribe's giant snake monster god. As I recall, the hero kills the monster with a grenade.

I read this novel when I was in the fifth grade (in the early 1970s), as part of an advanced reading program, but the book's style seems earlier, from the 1940s or 50s perhaps. This was a hardcover novel, and as far as I can remember the jacket illustration was a simple sketch, almost a line drawing, with green and beige, showing the snake monster. I recall no interior illustrations. Trappers of Venus does not ring any bell for me. The writing style, as I remember it, seems reminiscent of Lester Del Rey.

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I am attempting to identify a youth Youth-oriented science fiction novel that I read in the early 1970sabout two boys on Venus who are captured by a native tribe

The novel is about colonists on Venus. The main characters are two young boys. The boys make friends with a comical, monkey-like primitive native, and also meet a crazy human hermit character. The characters are captured by a hostile native tribe, and offered to the tribe's giant snake monster god. As I recall, the hero kills the monster with a grenade. I have tried several online searches using these plot points, with no luck. I

I read this novel when I was in the fifth grade (in the early 1970s), as part of an advanced reading program, but the book's style seems earlier, from the 1940s or 50s perhaps. Thank you!

I am attempting to identify a youth-oriented science fiction novel that I read in the early 1970s

The novel is about colonists on Venus. The main characters are two young boys. The boys make friends with a comical, monkey-like primitive native, and also meet a crazy human hermit character. The characters are captured by a hostile native tribe, and offered to the tribe's giant snake monster god. As I recall, the hero kills the monster with a grenade. I have tried several online searches using these plot points, with no luck. I read this novel when I was in the fifth grade, as part of an advanced reading program, but the book's style seems earlier, from the 1940s or 50s perhaps. Thank you!

Youth-oriented science fiction novel about two boys on Venus who are captured by a native tribe

The novel is about colonists on Venus. The main characters are two young boys. The boys make friends with a comical, monkey-like primitive native, and also meet a crazy human hermit character. The characters are captured by a hostile native tribe, and offered to the tribe's giant snake monster god. As I recall, the hero kills the monster with a grenade.

I read this novel when I was in the fifth grade (in the early 1970s), as part of an advanced reading program, but the book's style seems earlier, from the 1940s or 50s perhaps.

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I am attempting to identify a youth-oriented science fiction novel that I read in the early 1970s

The novel is about colonists on Venus. The main characters are two young boys. The boys make friends with a comical, monkey-like primitive native, and also meet a crazy human hermit character. The characters are captured by a hostile native tribe, and offered to the tribe's giant snake monster god. As I recall, the hero kills the monster with a grenade. I have tried several online searches using these plot points, with no luck. I read this novel when I was in the fifth grade, as part of an advanced reading program, but the book's style seems earlier, from the 1940s or 50s perhaps. Thank you!