Cosmic
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.19 (718 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0061836885 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Being 239,000 miles from earth doesn't make it any easier.. Liam has always had trouble keeping his feet on the ground
My daughter enjoyed the book Patrice My daughter enjoyed the book, this book was part of her summer reading assignment, she found it to be funny.. xuexia wang said Five Stars. Great book, so interesting.. Wonderful, meaningful story! Ever since he was a little kid, Liam wasn't little. By the time he turns twelve, he's way taller than his dad, let alone his classmates. He has to shave. Everyone mistakes him for an adult--and he hates it. Untilhe's the only kid allowed to ride the new super ride at the amusement parkand adults treat him with respectand he (almost) gets away with test-driving a Porsche. And he somehow cons his way into being the "parent chaperone" to the first four kids in space. Which is absolutely cosmic, as he would say--until the kids start acting like typical kids and break the ship. What they need is a dad to come rescue them--but Liam is the on
Even his teachers seem to conflate tall with old. --Michael Cart . So big that strangers mistake the 12-year-old for an adult. There are lots of surprises in Liam’s story, and without spoiling any of them by saying more, just know that this is not only a story about big lads, but also about dads and dadliness! Grades 4-7. From Booklist *Starred Review* Liam is a big lad. Boyce is a Carnegie Medal–winning author, after all (for Millions, 2004), and he knows how to tell a compellingly good story. So heaven forbid he should ever make a mistake. Yes, quite a few things—some of them cosmic and all of them extremely funny—do happen in between. But in his latest extravagantly imaginative and marvelously good-natured novel he has also written one that is bound to win readers’ hearts, if not a clutch of big prizes—t
Frank Cottrell Boyce is the author of Cosmic, Framed, and Millions, the last of which was a New York Times bestseller and was made into a movie by Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle. He lives in Liverpool with his family.. His books have won or been nominated for numerous awards, including the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, and the Whitbread Children's Book Award. Frank is also a screenwriter, havin