Cosmic - Hardcover

Cottrell Boyce, Frank

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061836834 ISBN 13: 9780061836831

Publisher: Walden Pond Pr, 2010

Synopsis

Liam has always felt a bit like he's stuck between two worlds. This isprimarily because he's a twelve-year-old kid who looks like he's about thirty. Sometimes it's not so bad, like when his new principal mistakes him for a teacher on the first day of school or when he convinces a car dealer to let him take a Porsche out on a test drive. But mostly it's just frustrating, being a kid trapped in an adult world. And so he decides to flip things around. Liam cons his way onto the first spaceship to take civilians into space, a special flight for a group of kids and an adult chaperone, and he is going as the adult chaperone. It's not long before Liam, along with his friends, is stuck between two worlds again--only this time he's 239,000 miles from home.

Frank Cottrell Boyce, author of Millions and Framed, brings us a funny and touching story of the many ways in which grown-upness is truly wasted on grown-ups.

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[Cosmic]Cosmic BY Cottrell Boyce, Frank(Author)Hardcover

Review:

...A hilarious and heartfelt examination of dadliness in all its forms...A can t-miss offering from an author whose latest novel may be his best yet.--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Truly a masterpeice. School Library Journal, starred review of Framed--School Library Journal (starred review)

Stunningly original the concept is immediately booktalkable and the telling is riveting; a book of such wealth of any kind is valuable indeed. The Bulletin of the Center for Children s Books, starred review of Millions--Bulletin of the Center for Children s Books (starred review)

"Stunningly original...the concept is immediately booktalkable and the telling is riveting; a book of such wealth--of any kind--is valuable indeed." -- The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred review of Millions--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review)

This superb humorous and inventive "cosmic" adventure celebrated space travel, friendships, and dads.--Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) (Starred Review)

"Truly a masterpeice." -- School Library Journal, starred review of Framed--School Library Journal (starred review)

...A hilarious and heartfelt examination of "dadliness" in all its forms...A can't-miss offering from an author whose latest novel may be his best yet.--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"A hilarious and heartfelt examination of "dadliness" in all its forms. A can't-miss offering from an author whose latest novel may be his best yet."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"[Frank Cottrell Boyce] has created a riveting, affecting, sometimes snortingly funny "what-if" scenario. Liam's musings on what it takes to be a good, responsible father are dryly comical but also charmingly earnest. A high-levity zero-gravity romp."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"A story of human possibility with a lot of adventure, or an adventure with full credit given to human possibility? Either way, it's a fantastic, funny, and moving novel. Celebrates not only the spirit of exploration but the human connectedness that allows it to flower."--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review)

About this edition

• Publisher: Walden Pond Pr
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0061836834
• ISBN 13: 9780061836831
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 313