Bound To Stay Bound

View MARC Record
 

Full Text Reviews:

School Library Journal - 06/01/2013 K-Gr 2—Students will blast into the future with these exciting books. Moving is hard enough for an eight-year-old boy, but moving to another planet is a cosmic challenge. Zack Nelson's father has accepted a great new job, but it is on the planet Nebulon. Sure, Zack has visited Mars and Venus lots of times, but this is different. His imagination gets the better of him as he dreams of slimy alien classmates that he won't relate to and food that is simply gross. Yet his biggest worry is that he will never be able to communicate with his friends on Earth again. He faces his fears and bravely embraces his new lifestyle. In Juno, Zack is paired with the class bully during a field trip and learns something about himself and Seth. Students will gravitate toward Zack and relate to his concerns and experiences, especially those who have faced a move. The intergalactic setting and futuristic gadgets will keep youngsters enthralled as they delve into reading chapter books on their own. Parents will also enjoy them as read-alouds because the stories are reminiscent of all of the technological advances of the future that they dreamed of and were introduced to by the Jetsons, Star Trek, and other 20th-century hits. On every page, large, gray-scale illustrations add humor and interest to the crisp, clear texts. These fantastically fun titles will add diversity to any collection and will appeal to boys and girls alike.—Amy Shepherd, St. Anne's Episcopal School, Middleton, DE - Copyright 2013 Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and/or School Library Journal used with permission.

Bulletin for the Center... - 07/01/2013 When his family decides to move from Earth to planet Nebulon in 2120, eight-year-old Zack Nelson isn’t happy; he has to leave his Earthling friends behind, and he is terrified that the kids on Nebulon will be insect-pizza-eating monsters. His new house, however, is engagingly equipped with Ira, an Indoor Robotic Assistant who’s there to cater to his every whim. Add to that a classmate named Drake, a native Nebulite, who shares Zack’s favorite class (planetology) and is happy to also share his high-tech space bike, and Zack might be able to adjust to life on Nebulon just fine. A standard tale of the culture shock of moving somewhere new, this beginning reader tones down the trauma with smile-inducing customs Zack must learn (“‘Yippee wah-wah’ is what Nebulite kids say when they are happy,” Drake helpfuly explains), and there’s humor in Zack’s sharing some of his own culture (Drake has never seen a dog before). Brief chapters with gently oversized print are enticingly readable. Cartoony Jetsons-inspired black and white illustrations take up space on most pages (the illustrator also designs characters for DreamWorks Animation), with Zack’s overactive imagination and the standard fare of a futuristic world, complete with space cars and hologram projectors, taking center stage. Particularly endearing are the Nebulites, humanoids with huge eyes, egg-shaped heads, three-piece suits, and expertly coiffed black hair. The start of a series of early readers, this is a solid choice to hand to kids yearning for a more extra-galactic adventure than The Magic Treehouse and its ilk. TA - Copyright 2013 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.

View MARC Record
Loading...



  • Copyright © Bound to Stay Bound Books, Inc. All rights reserved.
  • Privacy Policy