Invasion from the Planet of the Cows (Maximum Boy)
by Dan Greenburg

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Book Review: FUNNIEST BOOK ABOUT UFOS EVER!
Summary: 5 Stars

Max puts on his Maximum Boy costume and flies to Iowa, just as the first alien creature comes out of a UFO. It's a cow in a space-suit, General Bossy, Commander of the Planet of the Cows.

"Do you come in peace?" Max asks. "Well," says Commander Bossy, "that depends -- how are you defining the word 'peace'?" "I mean are you here to find out about our culture," says Max, "or are you here to kill off the entire population of Earth?" "Um, pretty much the first one," says Bossy. But the evil cow has nasty plans for the people of Earth.

It gets even funnier when Bossy asks about the colonies of cows that they had planted on Earth several thousand years ago. "Do cows have much responsibility in the government of planet Earth?" ask Bossy. Uh-oh...

Meanwhile, back home Max's annoying teenaged sister Tiffany is so jealous of the attention Max gets from the President and the media that she goes to the Air & Space Museum and deliberately handles the same radioactive space rocks that gave Max his powers. Then Tiffany gets superpowers too, and becomes Maximum Girl, but she can't control her powers. Also she has a bad attitude for a superhero: "My hair gets all yucky when I fly."

Greenburg, who also writes the Zack Files series, is at his funniest in this new Maximum Boy series. Kids can really identify with Max -- especially his math allergy! I enthusiastically recommend this book and the others in the series. The kids I've given them to love them!

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