For their own safety, Alice and other kids are being
evacuated to Mars, where they will also become cadets in the Exo-Defense Force
which is desperately trying to rid Earth of the Morrors - invisible beings
which have taken over the Earth’s poles and are slowing bringing on a new Ice
Age. The children are alternately ordered around by Colonel Cleaver, who
is determined to turn them into model cadets, and Goldfish, the programmed
floating bot which takes care of them the rest of the time. When the
adults are disappear to answer a distress call from one of the other Mars
bases, chaos reigns at the school. Alice and a few others escape the
brutality by hijack a vehicle and Goldfish follows along. They are
determined to find their way to another base and get help.
OMG - McDougall is hilarious! Except for the part
where the kids become Lord-of-the-Flies-ish (no one dies, but there is a lot of
yelling), the book is really about courage and friendship and understanding
each other. I laughed and cheered.
EL - OPTIONAL, MS - ADVISABLE. CIndy, Middle School
Librarian, MLS.
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