Colin's Fantastic Video Adventure

Kenneth Oppel, the blurb tells us, at present in school in Canada, wrote this book at the age of fourteen. One young tester was so impressed that he spent a great deal of time seeing how many grammatical errors and confusing sentences he could spot. He had to admit that there were not many and that it was a good story. Colin is obsessed by space invaders. Every spare minute is spent playing them until the day two little men who whiz about in space leapt out of the machine and joined Colin for a holiday. Colin plans to work the system by feeding his friends back each time he plays to gain the perfect score. As a national hero he travels to competitions all over the world until his conscience gets the better of him. He loses the crunch match and is last seen disappearing inside a space invader machine. A very slick little number! In hitting on the space-invader idea the young author has chosen an area of the market that will attract all sorts of readers, including the most reluctant.