Alien Attack

Star Fighters #1

by Max Chase

Welcome to the Intergalactic Force Academy--IF for short--the training ground for an elite young fighting team sworn to protect and defend the galaxy. Peri is a first-year student who has been selected for a rare unsupervised exercise in space. His co-pilot? A half-Martian named Diesel. While performing a routine exercise, Peri and Diesel witness Earth getting bombarded by Xion spaceships - and the pair are quickly drawn into the fray.

Genres: Fiction

128 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2012

Reviews

[Della · Rating 4 out of 5]

Star Fighters 1: Alien Attack by Max Chase
Star Fighters was the first book I’ve read in a long time that was for a younger audience. It is geared toward ages 7-10 and it is perfect for that age. It was a great little read, but ended too abruptly for my taste. I understand it was because the audience is so young, and also to bring readers to the next book in the series. The characters were well developed and even though it was a little predictable, it kept my interest. I recommended it to our children’s department for purchase. I may also buy a copy to read to my own daughter who is 5. It seemed like something she would enjoy.

[Sean Harding · Rating 2 out of 5]

Academy for space fighters battling aliens etc and of course the young people become heroes and save the day in what amounts to a pedestrian been here done that seen it all before story that runs by the numbers that you can almost tell what is going to happen on each page and it is very brief with pretty tw dimensional story and characters.

[Patricia Baker · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great for those beginning reading chapter stories.

[Mary · Rating 4 out of 5]

Alien attack by Max Chase
111 pgs.
Target audience: Ages 7 to 10
Rating: Wizard

Peri is a pilot and a first year cadet at the Intergalactic Force Academy. It’s the year 5012 and all the planets in the Milky Way have banded together to form the IFA, an elite group of fighters sworn to protect and defend the galaxy. On a routine mission in their space pod, Peri and his half-Martian friend, Diesel, are attacked by an alien ship. But just before their pod is annihilated by DeathRays, they’re transported back to the station which is under attack. The two pilots are immediately forced aboard a cloaked ship that looks like a giant egg and told that they have their orders which of course they know nothing about. As Peri and Diesel desperately try to figure out how to fly this ship, the space station explodes leaving them as the last defense against the alien invasion. The black and white illustrations do a great job of bringing the text alive. The ship is stock full of cool gadgetry and fighting abilities. Add to that Martian curses, monstrous aliens, the deadly vortex that eats spaceships alive and it’s a recipe for an unstoppable adventure series. (This book provided for review by Children's Lit - www.childrenslit.com)

[Derrick · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book absorbed me. I could not let go it because if I did it would be like separating a mother from her baby. If you like a book with suspense, action and drama then you can not die without reading this glorious novel. Star fighter alien attack by max chase is a book about a small group of young adults who are training to be star fighters. One day they went of on a training mission. This ship they used was designed by one of the pilots father, but they did not know that. It was designed to withstand all most any thing you fired at it, but like all things it had a weak point. They had finished there training mission successfully but suddenly BOOM!

[M. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Peri and Diesel are out on a training run from their school, the Intergalactic Force Academy. However, while they're gone, Earth is attacked by an alien force and Peri and Diesel have to figure out how to save the Earth. They follow the aliens through a vortex, they meet up with yet more aliens, and their survival becomes an issue.

This is a 2nd or 3rd grade series book and the ending is more like the end of Chapter 1 than it is an ending for a complete book in itself. Easy language and good pictures. Lots of action and lots of imagination in describing the aliens' ships and motives.

[Mary Ann · Rating 1 out of 5]

For those young readers that like stories on space might possibly get some pleasure from this story that is more than a bit unplausable. There are some pictures to entice the reader to continue on with the story that ends with a cliff hanger to hopefully encourage the reader to return for the next installment.

[Mr. George The Librarian · Rating 2 out of 5]

kinda cute, but could not finish it....something about the use of language.....kinda like "he grabed the handle thingy" like it was dummed down for young scifi readers too much.

[Melissa · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh. It was okay. Extremely predictable. Didn't care for the mangled science.

[Tyler Standish · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was good.