Review: I must be young at heart, I loved it!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 18, 2012
Four is a great read!  I was pleasantly surprised when I was asked to read this book by my friend Elmo Adams.  He told me it was a book about some middle school kids and aliens, I sort of groaned inside.  I am not a huge fan of middle school kids and only like aliens a little bit more than that.  Still, I like Elmo and he is always an interesting person to talk to and I assumed he could write about as well as he speaks so I grabbed it and went to my reading chair.Well, I finished it in two sessions, one before lunch and one after lunch.  The story was painless, it wasn't a huge surprise ending and it won't be the successor to the Star Wars movies but it was interesting enough, had some cool twists, and it worked for the folks who will be getting this book for Christmas, the middle and high school students.  I guess my wife is right when she says I have a sophomoric sense of humor because I thoroughly enjoyed the book.  Elmo's sense of humor poked through in places and I recognized some of his political leanings lightly veiled in the rhetoric as well.I think that my living in Lake County, Florida and knowing that the setting for the story was stuff in our area helped but the real appeal is the character development.  Elmo managed to not only make me like these kids and their teachers and the Alien but I found them believable too!  I could picture myself mentoring these kids.  I thought the solutions they found to problems they faced were both amusing and inventive.  In all it was wonderfully refreshing, clean and easy read.  This would make a great Christmas gift to any middle school student or even a high school student, I bet most school teachers would love it too.  Don't limit it to that though, at these prices grab a copy for yourself and enjoy this cool book too...