George and the Ship of Time (George's Secret Key)

The antagonist in this piece is adroitly named. ;)While it can be a tad preachy at times, this child-of-a-hippie found the messaging worthwhile. I have yet to finish the essays at the end (they are more scholarly than the fictionalized version in the story).

George is great company for anyone who loves adventures and science. It is well written, the story lines are captivating and you learn physics without even thinking about it. What could be better?

Love all of the books!

I recommend this book for children 10 years of age and up. Excellent book!.My son enjoyed it very much even though he found a few mistakes in scientific information.

It is not very good but still definitely nice. It is a book I personally kinda liked but was disappointed in comparison to the previous books.

Excellent

If your kids have read books 1-5 of the series, they will find exciting plot twists in this final 6th book. The subject matter, set in a dystopian future, is more political and technological than the more science-infused previous books in the series. There are no interleaving science vignettes — just straight fiction (there are essays on a variety of relevant subjects at the end of the book).Kudos to Lucy Hawking for painting a vivid post-climate emergency world for children to consider. Kids will easily identify references to current political figures.

Best book ever, and I've read a lot of books!

A confused book. Author never uses one adjective when four will do and the story is slow and meandering. It needs a severe edit.Plot is a mashup of The Time Machine, Terminator, and Hunger Games. Felt very unoriginal. The new villain ‘Trellis Dump’ is a caricature of Donald Trump which joke goes completely over the head of children and seemed out of place in the story, but more importantly I don’t want to read about Trump.Plot is dystopian and rather depressing. George is in the future and has lost his family, who stay lost and we have to assume his parents are dead. His best friend Annie is old. The author ignores all the emotional impact of this in a very unrealistic way, but more importantly my child is upset by such ideas. It is no longer light entertainment. Felt more like a young adult book, except that the hero is so young.Ending is abrupt and leaves a lot of questions unanswered.Didn’t think much of the extra sections at the end, especially the defence of war and why war can be good - felt rather creepy and brainwashy in a child’s book.Regret buying, will attempt to ‘lose’ this before son gets to the end.

I will use my son's words (he is 9): ' Considering the huge size of this book, you would expect it to be very descriptive, but it isn't, it only uses very simple sentences for very young children'.I tried at least twice to read this book , but stopped for the same reason: its simplicity, contrasting with the expectations raised by the name.

Great book - my 8 year old is loving it and learning so many new things about space and time !

Well told little tale enjoyed by both myself and my young granddaughter

Bought it for my kid but im reading first and love it ! Good fiction adventure mixed with real teaching moments!! Amazing! Have them all already!