Truant from Space

Large clear print, pertinent and plentiful b/w drawings, short chapters, characters and situations with which children can easily identify, plus a fair mix of creative imagination, all help to make this an interesting sci-fi book for lower juniors. Young Corgi recommend the book for those who have just mastered basic reading skills but I would query some of the vocabulary used: space robots who were 'bursting with.... self righteousness and virtuous triumph'; discrimination'; 'anxiously'. An easier language might have better suited the young reader here.