Let Me Off This Spaceship! - Softcover

Greer, Gery; Ruddick, Bob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0064404366 ISBN 13: 9780064404365

Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books

Synopsis

When Tod and Billy are kidnapped by creatures from outer space, they make as much trouble as they can so that the spaceship captain will take them back to Earth

About this title

From School Library Journal

Grade 2-4-- This imaginative romp, illustrated with black-and-white drawings, has lots of appeal. When Tod and Billy are beamed aboard an alien spaceship taking off from their neighborhood park, they are naturally eager to escape. When Captain Thorst (who looks like a giant carrot) says he will return them to Earth as soon as he's completed his mission, they are relieved--until they discover that the trip will take 30 years. Tod comes up with a plan: the boys will make themselves "more trouble than they are worth" in the hope that the captain will send them back. High jinks abound--an all-alien game of touch football in the control room, Tod's attempt to make the spaceship do loops, and general subversion of the crew. Predictably, the captain gives up, and the boys are back in time for lunch. The writing is lively, and the story is full of adventure. The ship is a melting pot of aliens who are concisely and creatively described. With so much action, this is a good choice for science fiction fans who are not quite ready for Slote's My Robot Buddy (Lippincott, 1975) .
-Anne Connor, Los Angeles Pub . Lib .
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0064404366
• ISBN 13: 9780064404365
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Sims Blanche