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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This story is about an eleven-year-old boy called Stan Pollux. Stan has a little sister, Poppy, who is five years old. They don't always get on, and Stan doesn't like her in his room or touching his belongings. Stan and Poppy live with their parents on the edge of the village and go to the local school. The school bully has been picking on Stan for some time, and matters have been made worse because Poppy once intervened on his behalf, causing Stan great embarrassment. Stan seems to blame Poppy for all of his troubles. The summer holidays have just begun, and Poppy has been in Stan's room, where she knocked over his telescope. He is furious with her when he thinks it is broken. He looks through the lens and sees something which frightens him. This causes him to sleep badly. The next evening he takes his telescope into the garden to get a better look at something strange in the sky, and is kidnapped! Poppy has seen Stan disappear from the garden. One minute he was there, and the next he wasn't! She gathers her courage, and a crystal she took from Stan's room when she knocked over his telescope, and goes into the garden, where she is also kidnapped, but by a more sinister force. Stan, with the help of his new friends, the space dragons, must save the world and his little sister, from Hades and the Titans. Hooked from the first line, I found Space Dragons to be entertaining, well-written, and funny on a level that will definitely appeal to its intended audience. Younger readers will also be able to identify with the main characters, Stan and Poppy, and their relationship. I loved that each chapter begins with its own explanatory note, particularly the ones which defined the planets. I felt I was learning something, as well as enjoying a rip-roaringly gripping adventure story. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
If Stan Pollux had known he would be spending his summer holidays in the outer reaches of our solar system, he would have put on different underpants. But when he gets kidnapped by the Planet Dragon Mercury, most things suddenly seem small and insignificant. Stan finds himself in a universe of dragons who had once ruled the skies as gods: Mars, Venus, Saturn and even Uranus way out back. This is shaping up to be the best summer holiday in the history of the cosmos until Stan discovers his stupid sister is missing and that Pluto (AKA Hades) is trying to use her to destroy the Solar System. And it will be all Stan's fault if he doesn't get Poppy back. So, all Stan has to do is learn how to fight like a hero in space armour, defeat the dragon god of the Underworld, Hades, rescue his sister and save the world. All before his parents realise she is missing. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This is the story of one young boy whose fate was turned towards to extraordinary...thanks to the meddling of his kid sister.
Stan and Poppy were quite the little duo. Seemingly your average brother and sister, only to be revealed as the potential defender of our species and keepers of the particle of light, respectively. Talk about having to grow up quick! I love how honest Stan's reaction to the whole debacle was. I applaud his growth over the course of the story, as well as his determination to see things through, come what may. Poppy, on the other hand, was quite the SURPRISE! Who'd have thought the precocious tyke could hold the dragon version of Hades at bay? Right?! I mean, talk about a powerful little "princess"! Her rash decisions get her both IN and OUT of trouble, but she always acts with kindness at heart.
Aside from our little leading humans, we have the GREAT AND MIGHTY SPACE DRAGONS! No, really...they are dragons in space, but not really our space because they are outside our dimension where time doesn't reach and...I'm getting ahead of myself. Suffice it to say, they are awesome...and in the story, the reptilian equivalent to the gods and goddess of Greek Mythology, and rather impressive, but they have issues just like us wee humans.
In the end, is it too cliche to say it was definitely an out of this world adventure? Okay well then let me say that although it's high flying, space soaring "fun" (meaning cool yet dangerous! ), it also reminds us to hold close the ones we love even, if they drive us a bit batty at times.
*ebook received for review; opinions are my own ( )