Flowkwee is on a mission with one set of his parents (he appears to have 3 sets), to investigate earth, and pick up some human samples. His task is to infiltrate a school, as a schoolboy, trying to hide his vastly advanced knowledge. Unfortunately they arrived 50 years later than anticipated, and with a very sketchy understanding of human behaviour and customs.
This is a really entertaining book, which looks at just how silly some of the things we do might appear. I got this for my 7 year old son, who liked the idea of reading about aliens. Before this, the only paperbacks he had read were Horrid Henry books. When this arrived, he was initially put off by some of the difficult "alien" words in the first chapter. However, I sat down and read the first chapter to him, he then took the book and was off. He read the rest of the book by himself. It took him just over a week, reading about a chapter each evening. He loved reading it, and found it very funny, frequently bringing me a page to show me the funniest bits! His 11 year old brother also read it (in two hours), and thought it was really funny. I finally got my hands back on the book after both of them.
I definitely recommend this . Its a great book for getting kids into paperbacks. Its also one of those books which makes you think at the end.
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