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SPACEBOY

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SPACEBOY by David Walliams and Adam Stower

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By David Walliams and Adam Stower

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Go back to the Space Race with No.1 bestselling author David Walliams for a breathless cinematic adventure full of mystery, action, laughs and surprises – and a secret that could change the course of history…

America. The 1960s. Stuck on a remote farm with her awful aunt, twelve-year-old orphan Ruth spends every night gazing at the stars, dreaming of adventure. One night she spots a flying saucer blazing across the sky… before crash-landing in a field. When the spaceship opens and reveals a mysterious alien, all Ruth’s dreams come true. But does this visitor from another planet have a giant secret? Spaceboy is a hilarious and action-packed tale for readers in any solar system. David Walliams was most recently Children’s #1 bestseller with The World’s Worst Pets (TCM chart: 30 April 2022)

Reviews

30 Dec 2025

I liked the book because it was about space and it inspired me to know more about space it is a fiction story and my favourite character is the alien who is actually a boy who ran away from home and pretend that he is a alien I would recommend it to someone else because it helps them aliens don't exists so they shouldn't be afraid thay do exists

08 Sep 2025

I really liked this book because at first I thought that the ship had come from space and then I liked when actually it was just made out of scraps.

27 Aug 2025

It was quite a good book, I have to say!

27 Aug 2025

Ruth and Kevin escaped to space.

22 Aug 2025

I like the part when spaceboy dramatically appears in the background

16 Aug 2025

I love this in both book and audiobook and I love all of the voices that goes on

09 Aug 2025

Loved this

08 Aug 2025

I thought this book was okay. I liked Kevin who disguised himself as alien as he wants to move away from his grandpa, that gets mean and horrible with him when he is drunk. Another girl called Ruth spots an UFO that was made by Kevin and they make a plan to set off into space to live there. I would recommend to others who share a love of space and travel.

28 Jul 2025

It is about a girl who is interested in space but she finds a alien but it turns out it is a boy who lives in the town next to hers

22 Jul 2025

Overall, this book was great! I liked the dog and how at the end, both the main characters got away from their horrible carers. It was fun to read and I couldn't stop reading once I picked it up. But I didn't like that Spaceboy wasn't an alien.

13 Jul 2025

Fun

09 Mar 2025

loved it

12 Jan 2025

I really enjoyed this book. I like the use of onomatopoeia in this book. My favourite character is Ruth because she talks a lot like me.

21 Dec 2024

I liked it because it had a silver alien but it wasn't an alien!

18 Dec 2024

I really enjoyed this book because there was a crash in Ruth's garden.
She discovered that a flying saucer crash landed. She has been living with her very rude and annoying aunt ever since her parents had died. But Ruth still has her three - legged dog to keep her company

24 Sep 2024

I love this book

I tried to find it in the library as soon as it came out

I would recommend this book to everybody

08 Sep 2024

I really enjoyed this book.

I have read some other David Walliams books. This one was really good.

04 Sep 2024

Typical David Williams type humour and entertainment and fiction style imaginative story of the alien with big secrets. I enjoyed it

02 Sep 2024

Ruth is a little girl who's only friend is a dog with an egg whisk for a leg! When she meets Spaceboy, she wants to know everything.
But there might be a bit more to him than space...

02 Sep 2024

It was amazing

29 Aug 2024

I like space so I enjoyed this story I loved that they managed to blast into space at the end.

28 Aug 2024

I loved the book because it was a bit mysterious at the start but it got a bit more into the space boy and then i realised space boy was not an alien but still at the end it was a great book.

28 Aug 2024

This book was all about people thinking spaceboy was an alien but it turns out he's just a boy wearing a costume. It was a really funny read. My favourite part was towards the end when they blast down the adults and they all fell over.

27 Aug 2024

This book is very funny and Spaceboy looks really cool because his outfit is kind of like armour. There’s a girl with a dog and the girl heard a noise and then she got out of bed, went outside and she saw something and I think it was a flying saucer!!

26 Aug 2024

I liked it because Spaceboy and Ruth had to pretend Spaceboy was a alien but he actually wasn't, he was a boy named Kevin from the town next to Ruth. He built his own spaceship with metal and a tractor engine but he crashed into Aunt Dorothy's farm . When Aunt Dorothy found out about Spaceboy they had to make a run for it . They hopped on ostriches to escape and there a fast paced adventure!
My favourite character's were Ruth, Spaceboy and Yuri.
I would recommend this book, as it is fast-moving and fun, and lots of opportunities to speak in funny accents.

25 Aug 2024

I enjoyed the story a lot and liked how she got to go to space, having dreamt of going for a long time.

22 Aug 2024

I’d recommend this book because I liked the bit when they go to space with the spaceboy

21 Aug 2024

its a great adventure book about a boy and a crash landed spaceship - i love this story and i even wrote to adma stower saying i loved his drawings and he wrote back !

20 Aug 2024

I liked this book because it talks about space the characters are funny. Yuro the dog was my favourite because he bit a man’s bottom.

20 Aug 2024

I like this book very much, with a lot of plot twists, chapters, and thrilling scenes!

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