There’s Nothing to Do on Mars

Chris Gall
Little, Brown Young Readers (2008)
ISBN 9780316166843
Reviewed by Matthew Feliciano (age 7) for Reader Views (2/08)


Davey’s family moves to Mars because they want to get away from Earth because there are too many people.  Davey knows that there is nothing to do on Mars so he doesn’t want to go, but he has to.  One day he and his dog, Polaris, go on his scooter to go around Mars and explore. They soon find a crater that the dog sniffed out.  When they are digging in the crater, there is a loud CRACK and water starts gushing out of it.  More people start coming to Mars because there is water there.  Davey goes surfing one day and when he comes back his mother says “There are too many people here.  We have to move to Saturn.”  And Davey knows there is NOTHING to do on Saturn!

“There’s Nothing to Do on Mars” was fun to read.  The illustrations were not that great and I didn’t really like them, but the story was so good that I could ignore the pictures.  It was cool to be able to imagine living on Mars.

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