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Max All Over

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BfK No. 62 - May 1990

Cover Story
The illustration on our cover is taken from One World by Michael Foreman, published by Andersen Press, (0 86264 289 2, £6.95). We are grateful to Andersen Press for their help in using this illustration and to Michael Foreman for the article.

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Max All Over

Marilyn Kaye
(Puffin Books)
978-0140328448, RRP £2.99, Paperback
8-10 Junior/Middle
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A group of American teenagers, indistinguishable from each other except by name, encounter a boy from another planet. The friends are curiously uninterested in the alien's culture and experiences; instead, they're more concerned that he doesn't immediately take to ball-games, discos and dating. The alien makes one or two mildly amusing remarks in the style of A Martian Sends a Postcard Home, but American middle-class values aren't challenged at all. When the newcomer begins to be a nuisance, the friends arrange - by a most unconvincing contrivance - to get him beamed back to his own planet, so that they can continue to enjoy their cheerleading, fashion-shows and movies unencumbered by someone who won't fit in.

Reviewer: 
Linda Newbery
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