Which is how 12 year-old Liam ends up in a rocket. Whilst their parents think they are going to a school trip to the Lake District, celebrity-obsessed Florida and Liam along with 4 other winners and their kids travel to China, where they learn that the five kids will actually be going to SPACE in the Infinite Possibility Rocket “ride” and only one of the adults get to accompany them this adults will be voted by the kids after going through a series of tests that sort of come across as Survivor Meets Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Still, the perks outweigh the disadvantages especially when – by pretending to be an adult AND a father (to his friend Florida Kirby) – Liam manages to win a competition to go to the world’s newest, most exciting theme park IN CHINA, The Infinite Park. On the downside, being too tall and adult-like somehow creates unreasonable expectations and it’s not unusual for Liam to hear the words: “a big guy like you, you should know better”. For most part, Liam enjoys the benefits and advantages of being regarded as an adult: he goes to places he is not supposed to he gets to drive a Porsche and after passing the height restrictions, enjoys the scariest rollercoaster ever: the Cosmic. He is so tall that people actually think he is an adult (the fact that he has Premature Facial Hair also helps). Liam Digby is only 12 but he is VERY tall. Why did I read this book: Jaclyn Moriarty talked about it on her Smugglivus’ guest post and I bought the book after I read the post.Ĭosmic proves rather successfully that the most ludicrous premise can turn into a wonderful, believable story in the hands of a competent writer: How did I get this book: Bought (Kindle edition) It’s not long before Liam, along with his friends, is stuck between two worlds again only this time he’s 239,000 miles from home.

Liam cons his way onto the first spaceship to take civilians into space, a special flight for a group of kids and an adult chaperone, and he is going as the adult chaperone.

But mostly it’s just frustrating, being a kid trapped in an adult world. Sometimes it’s not so bad, like when his new principal mistakes him for a teacher on the first day of school or when he convinces a car dealer to let him take a Porsche out on a test drive. This is primarily because he’s a twelve-year-old kid who looks like he’s about thirty.

Liam has always felt a bit like he’s stuck between two worlds. Publication date: July 2008 (First edition)

Genre: Contemporary (with a bit of Sci Fi since it’s sort of set in SPACE) / Children’s

Cosmic by frank cottrell boyce