A humorous story about a most unusual summer vacation.Most twelve-year-olds don't spend their summers working fourteen hours at their grandmother's Bed and Breakfast which caters to aliens, yet that is exactly what David (nicknamed Scrub) does in this story. Floridian Scrub is spending the summer at his peace loving, granola crunching health nut Grandma's Intergalactic Bed and Breakfast located in the Pacific Northwest of Washington. Both the humans in Grandma's hometown and the aliens are unlike any Scrub has ever met. There's Mr. Hoarax who can play a mean game of basketball, Sheriff Tate who wants to close the place down, his daughter Amy who has an interest in all things extraterrestrial and an interest in Scrub, plus Zardolph and his younger brothers who are able to float on water and gather firewood like it's no else's business. Can David survive his summer in the Pacific Northwest? Will Grandma be able to keep her Bed and Breakfast open past the summer or is it time for her to retire? What about Sheriff Tate, will he succeed in his plans to close down the place? And what about Amy, can she be friends with David or not? Find out the answers to these questions and more in this book. I think that Clete Barrett Smith, author of Aliens On Vacation is really saying that we should accept everyone just the way they are. In the story Grandma tells scrub, ¨Everyone deserves a nice, peaceful vacation... Everyone deserves to be treated well, no matter how different they appear¨(Smith,25). This quote explains that everybody should be treated fairly. This shows that Grandma wanted peace for the aliens. I can infer that the author is really trying to say that people today don't treat people the same just because of their race or religion, because as a rule people treat people differently if they're unlike them. Therefore, we should accept people for who they are.
What do You think about Aliens On Vacation (2011)?
Great story and characters! Sparked my imagination and fueled me with wonder.
—emyle
Really cute. Kids loved it. No serious themes.
—hellen
