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Beatnik Rutabagas From Beyond The Stars

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Our committee liked this book so well that we are giving it the Eleanor Cameron Award for Excellence in Children's Science Fiction.

It is very much like a younger version of Hitchhiker's Guide and should excite many readers.

I have read this book three times and I love it. It's really random and the aliens aren't as menacing as in a lot of science-fiction books. They actually kind of seem like kids, because they have almost no common sense. It flows along really well, too, and it seems like the kids in it are smarter than the aliens (they've been fighting a war for three hundred years and don't really know the actual reason). Almost anyone that likes science-fiction and has a sense of humor would like this book.

This is a very funny, very fun book. It's not as bizarre as the Hitchhiker's series, but just as, maybe more, funny. My class is going to love this book!

The book "Beatnik Rudabagas From beyond the stars" is a classic Sci-Fi with hilarious twists on villans and normally scary or boring charecters. The story stays semi relistic while still being outrageous.It is an exciting book leading up to a somewhat funny and happy ending. Any one with a toch of humor would love this book. I reccomend it to 11yr olds on up. I give it five stars all around.

As A person of practicaly 13 I found this book fairly interesting,however I fond it hard to follow the plot. It seemed that the chapters seemed to jump around a lot. I couldn't seem to follow it that well. My friends and I talk about books though, and I highly recommended it to them. One read it from our school library and told me that it was well written, she loved it.

As a ten year old I would really have enjoyed this book. As an adult, I felt like a ten year old while reading it. It is refreshing to read a book without explicit sex and foul language; maybe I should read more childrens books. The descriptions of the "visitors" allowed me to picture them in my minds eye. I could very easily have been Walter and had this same adventure. His relationship with Yselle in the real world, became this fantasy. I am sure there are many more adventures these two could embark on and further their relationship. This is the type of fantasy kids of all ages can enjoy. Quentin, I hope you are up to the task. Remember keep it clean and fun.

He'll read this book! It's a crazy story about Walter Nutria, a teen who gets kidnapped by aliens who want HIM to lead them in a space battle. Walter's qualifications? He's rented more sci-fi videos than anyone, so he must know more about space battles than anyone on earth. Walter is not the best role model, being a kid who skips classes and stuff. But I met the author last month and he told me he wanted to write the kind of books HE would have wanted to read when he was a kid. At this I think he succeeded. You'll love the crazy space creatures in here - read it and have fun!