- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: Bodley Head Children's Books; 1st Edition edition (6 Jan 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0370326717
- ISBN-13: 978-0370326719
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.8 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,901,455 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Readers will enjoy the exciting plot and fast-moving action, and the sympathetic characters will stay with them long after the book is closed." -- "School Library Journal," Starred
"Waugh beams out the message that the driving force in the universe is love-no matter what planet you're from." -- "The Horn Book Magazine," Starred
"Waugh beams out the message that the driving force in the universe is love-no matter what planet you're from." -- "The Horn Book Magazine," Starred
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Thomas and his father live a normal, happy life in Belthorp, however that is all about to end. In their background lurks a secret, almost forgotten by Thomas until his father announces that the past has caught up with them. Will they survive?
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The village of Belthorp lay sleeping like the little town of Bethlehem under the dark December sky. Read the first page
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Thomas and his father Patrick, seemingly ordinary folk, are in fact aliens who must shortly find their spacecraft and leave earth. Like Sylvia Waugh's other creations the Mennyms, they have to keep their real identity a secret. Things go wrong when Patrick is involved in a traffic accident, leaving Thomas to cope with the emergency on his own. There is a clock ticking; will the two be on their spaceship when it leaves in a few days time?As in the Mennyms books, there is a kindly female figure to help them, who might the the author herself(?)and again it is children who realize the truth about the space visitors.Plenty of suspense and a genuine belief in the helpfulness of others.A warm hearted adventure.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Best Book I've Ever Read
1 Dec 2001
Format:Hardcover
Space Race is an awesome book. So if you are and eager reader I think you will like this book too. The author, Sylvia Waugh, uses a lot of interesting words to make a great book. It is about an eight year old boy named Thomas who lived on a far away planet, Ormingat, and had to come to Earth because his dad had a job to do. Thomas makes a new friend,Mickey, so his dad tells him not to tell anyone who he really is or where he is really from.Thomas didn't listen to that and told Mickey but it is a good thing that Mickey doesn't listen to him.When the time had come the Ormingat people said they had to go back to Ormingat.Will Thomas and his dad leave or stay.If you want to find out then read Space Race.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Best Book I've Ever Read
1 Dec 2001
Format:Hardcover
Space Race is an awesome book. So if you are and eager reader I think you will like this book too. The author, Sylvia Waugh, uses a lot of interesting words to make a great book. It is about an eight year old boy named Thomas who lived on a far away planet, Ormingat, and had to come to Earth because his dad had a job to do. Thomas makes a new friend,Mickey, so his dad tells him not to tell anyone who he really is or where he is really from.Thomas didn't listen to that and told Mickey but it is a good thing that Mickey doesn't listen to him.When the time had come the Ormingat people said they had to go back to Ormingat.Will Thomas and his dad leave or stay.If you want to find out then read Space Race.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
A new book to me
5 Jun 2001
Format:Hardcover
I thought that this book was a new type of book. A normal book is ussaly just something exciting happens and that is it for kids books but this book is different because I ussaly cant read a real kind of far out book and enjoy it but I enjowed this book so much. I think that Mrs.Waugh has brought on a new kind of book. The book is not one of those books about creepy aliens and all that junk, it is about real aliens witgh real feelinggs trying to get home just like any other person would do. If you like this book I would sujest reading the His Dark Materials series by Phillip Pullman.
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