Now Alice and her friends are in the company of a cheery robot goldfish and must solve a couple mysteries along the way.
And everything seems to be going fine and dandy. The idea is that they’ll be safe there and will be able to finish their education in space until they’re old enough to become soldiers. But all Alice knows is that she’s being shipped off with a load of other kids to Mars. Alice Dare’s mother is the high flying hero Captain Dare, killer of aliens everywhere. Earth has fought back, of course, and so now we’re all trapped in a huge space battle of epic proportions. Turns out the Morrors are looking for a new home and if it doesn’t quite suit their needs they’ll adapt it until it does. The trouble is, they didn’t STOP cooling it down. When you’ve got a planet nearly decimated by global warming, it doesn’t sound like such a bad deal when aliens start telling you they’ve got a way to cool down the planet. Stellar from the first sentence on.Īt first it seemed like a good thing that the aliens had come. A sci-fi middle grade novel that encompasses everything from gigantic talking floating goldfish to PG discussions of alien sex, this is one of those books you might easily miss out on. They are books that are so smart and good and worthy that you feel that you are maximizing your time on this globe by merely being in their presence. Some books, however, have the quintessential strong first page. Some take a little time to get going, you know? It might take 50 pages before you’re fully on board, so I always give the book the benefit of the doubt. My reasoning is that not all books are good from the get-go. If I’m going to spend time with a book, I want to feel like I’m accomplishing something, not slogging through it. So it is that with my weird predilection for completion I am enormously picky when it comes to what I read.
After all, most librarians understand that their time on this globe is limited and that if they want to read the greatest number of excellent books in a given year, they need to hold off on spending too much time devouring schlock and just skip to the good stuff.
I am sort of alone in this habit, which you could rightly call unhealthy.
I’ve a nasty habit of finishing every children’s book I start, no matter how dull or dire it might be.
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