Title: Good Night!
Product review: This rating is only in terms of other Tom Swift, Jr. books and not meant to compare this to - say "War and Peace" with a four-star rating.The Captive Planetoid contains most of the standard plot devices of a Tom Swift, Jr. book. Bud says "Good Night!" a lot and Tom gets to explain his latest endeavour. Phyllis and Sandy provide picnic lunches when Tom is working too hard. Chow the old Texan cook has another loud shirt. There is at least one "terrific explosion" at the end of a chapter.In this case, there is another scientific group who believes they are just as good as Tom Swift and Swift Enterprises and so when Tom passes on doing something, they decided to do it... and of course blow it. Despite the colossal urge to say "I told you so", Tom works hard to come up with a solution.The final chapter is pretty cool in terms of the solution and how it ultimately works out. The scale is larger than usual for a Tom Swift book. I give it 4 stars for that; it's better than average.
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