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BOOK REVIEW: About-Face Space Race
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by: Dell Smith Klein Dancing Word Reviewer
Title: About-Face Space Race Genre: Inspirational/Juvenile/Fiction
The Astro Kids race to a new adventure in About -Face Space Race , Book #5 in Bethany House Publisher’s Astro Kid series written by Robert Elmer and illustrated by Paul Turnbaugh. Theodore "Tag" Ortiz, the youngest of the Astro Kids narrates. His sister, Dee Bee, begins building a home-made space scooter. Vladimir "Mir" Chekhov, receives a brand new, Mercury T-XL kit. So the Astro kids set out in a girls-against-boys race to build space scooters to enter in the Martian Mega Marathon. Lamar "Buzz" Bright, and Mir work on the Mercury T-XL while Kumiko "Miko" Sato helps Dee Bee. Of course, there is a genuine, big and scary enemy, Deeter Meteor. Tag wonders which of the Astro Kids’ scooters might win against Meteor’s fabulous scooter. Who wins the space race? Good question--but best left to the reader to discover. Along the way, the Astro Kids learn an important Bible truth. Robert Elmer describes himself as an "Earth-based author who writes for life-forms all over the solar system." His fresh humor splashes every page of About-Face Space Race. The illustrator Paul Turnbaugh gives the reader attractive ethnically accurate sketches of the Astro Kids. At the end of the book is a coded message for earth-based kids. Those who "break" the code identify the basis for the Bible truth discovered by Tag and his friends. Robert Elmer did not disappoint with his clever series. At least one reader is eager to read #6. | |
