A fun story told in a science fiction world. The adventure is fun and the kids find very smart ways to handle the new situation they find themselves in. Like hitchhikers guide to the galaxy where all the aliens and robots had nice personalities. Story is well told and would be good for kids to read during free time. ( )

Overdrive e-book as part of the Sora Reads collection. Great action story set in a school of the future which is actually a spaceship orbiting the planet Ganymede. It is the last day of term and the students are all gathered in the Cafeteria waiting the Principal to finish his boring speech so they can all go home for the "Summer" break when their craft is attacked. Jack and his two friends intercept a message from Jack's father - a disgraced ex-science teacher telling them to go to the engine Bay.
There they find a Light speed hyperdrive and to escape the attacking aliens, Jack activates the drive. They shoot off into the far reaches of Space and become entangled with a group of aliens that have never met a human before.

This is all the standard kids versus the galaxy/adults with the three protagonists being able to outwit and out play their enemies and their teachers. At times very funny - the canteen robots and the ship's computer are very much like Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ; with distinct personalities,and mistakes about the names of humans mean the book is best suited to any boy from Grade 5 to Year 7. First in a series. ( )