George's parents do not believe in the positives of technology, only its dangers to the planet. There is no tv, no phone, no computers but George did manage to talk them into letting him have a pet pig. Except one day the pig escapes into his neighbor's backyard and he meets Annie who introduces him to her father and their supercomputer, Cosmos. With Cosmos's help, Annie's father is able to journey through the solar system to explore so much further. Of course, George ends up accidentally telling one of his teachers about Cosmos and that teacher has been looking for Cosmos for his own purposes.
I really wanted to like this book. I mean, a children's book written by Stephen Hawking and his daughter about space?! It should be awesome! My 12 year old loved the entire series and was finishing each one in about two days. However, the plot was so unbelievably simplistic and predictable it was a slog to get through. Yes, the science is sound but it was less woven in and more just graphs and extra information that broke up what flow there was in the story (which wasn't much). I can't bring myself to try and read any of the others in this series but my son recommends them to the late elementary/middle school science geeks.
Page count: 295p/15,751p ytd/307,767p lifetime
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