![]() Every time I lean forward I do a perfect somersault. Has anyone ever played Monopoly to the end? Don’t most people just sort of slip into a sort of boredom coma after a few goes and wake up six months later with a handful of warm hotels?” “That night Dad wanted us all to play Monopoly in the new kitchen. Being stuck in space with four other kids who don’t know much more than Liam about how to fix an off-course rocket is Trouble. Liam gets into trouble, out of trouble, back into trouble, out, then into MAJOR trouble. Liam’s lack of a driver’s license only slows him down, but doesn’t stop his adventures.Ĥ. He keeps getting mistaken for an adult, so he does what most thirteen year old boys would like to do: he goes along with the mistaken identity. It’s got a good solid, unbelievable, but satisfying premise: child pretends to be adult, and hijinks ensue. Things are either “rubbish” or “cosmic.” Liam eats crisps. Liam and his dad carry a “mobile,” not a cell. Not so thick with slang that one has to have a dictionary, but still the Britishisms are there and delightfully so. about two hundred thousand miles above the surface of the Earth.” Cosmic is about how Liam got into space and what happened when he did. the first chapter, entitled “I Am Not Exactly in the Lake District.” What makes that funny is that Liam, the thirteen year old protagonist and narrator of this adventure story, is actually “on this rocket. ![]() OK, this one is easily the best children’s fiction title I’ve read this year. ![]()
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