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Cosmic

By: Frank Cottrell Boyce

Characters

The Main Characters are:

Liam Digby: Main character who is abnormally tall and is mistaken for a grown up.

Florida Kirby: One of Liam's classmates from school

Liam's Father: Overprotective father

Liam Digby

A 12 year old boy who is unusually tall and is always mistaken as a grown-up and is expected to act mature. He has facial hair and looks to be about 30. Looking like a grown up has its advantages. He can ride all the rides at amusement parks. He got a chance to test drive a car, he looks to be a father figure to Florida (See Florida for more details). But him looking to be a father figure got him into this hectic ride in the first place.

Liam Digby

Florida Kirby

Florida Kirby is one of Liam Digby's classmates from school. She is also responsible for the main reason this story is occuring.

Florida Kirby

Liam's Father

Liam's father has a big part in this story. Liam's Father's actions affects Liam pretending to be a father.

Liam's Father

Exposition/Rising Action

Liam Digby is a 12 year old teen who is so tall that he’s easily mistaken for an adult, as Liam discovers when he and his classmate from school, Florida Kirby, wander around town together after school. Stopping at car dealership, Liam is approached by a salesman, who assumes Florida is Liam's daughter. Soon enough Liam finds himself invited to take a car for a test drive. To Liam's relief, his taxi-driving father brings this unnerving experience to an end before Liam has to actually start the car.

Climax/Falling Action

When Liam enters a competition to win a place on a secret amusement park ride, Liam finds that posing as Florida’s father figure has its advantages. He is chosen to be the only adult in charge of the four kids who’ve been selected by the Drax Foundation to secretly ride a rocket ship out of earth's orbit. Soon after launch, the children fight over who gets to man the controls, and the next thing everyone knows, their ship has tumbled out of orbit and they can no longer see Earth anymore. It’s not all bad, though; as Liam says, “Being doomed is not good, but being weightless is Outstanding.”

Falling Action

Since the other children, except Florida, believe that Liam's really an adult, Liam has to be a man and get them out of this problem they have gotten into. Although he hopes his father can come to his rescue again, Liam knows that’s not really possible. Luckily, his experience playing the online popular game, World of Warcraft, is invaluable when it comes to problem-solving. Liam even uses tips from his dad’s book on how to talk to teenagers when life is getting bad.

How Liam and the kids manage to save themselves makes for a story that’s filled with heart-stopping suspense, good humor, clever plotting, and a couple of great surprises.

Falling Action

Theme

I feel like the theme of this story is about dads – the ones who get you out of trouble, the missing ones, and the ones who do their best even when they’re not sure what to do. That is my opinion on the theme of this wonderful story.

Summary

Liam Digby has always felt a bit like he’s stuck between two worlds. This is mostly because he’s a 12-year-old teen who looks like he’s about thirty-years-old. Sometimes it’s not so bad, like when his new principal mistakes him for a teacher on the first day of school or when he convinces a car dealer to let him take a flashy new Porsche out on a test drive. But mostly it’s just frustrating, being a teen trapped in an adult world. So Liam decides to flip things around. Liam cons his way onto the first spaceship to take civilians into space, a special flight for a group of children and an adult chaperone, and he is going as the adult chaperone. It’s not long before Liam, along with his friends and Florida, is stuck between two worlds again only this time he’s 239,000 miles from home and in space.

Summary

Cool Introductory Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v86I95J46DA

Cool Introductory Video

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