it All Starts With A School Essay.
when Twelve-year-old Gratuity (“tip”) Tucci Is Assigned To Write Five Pages On “the True Meaning Of Smekday” For The National Time Capsule Contest, She’s Not Sure Where To Begin. When Her Mom Started Telling Everyone About The Messages Aliens Were Sending Through A Mole On The Back Of Her Neck? Maybe On Christmas Eve, When Huge, Bizarre Spaceships Descended On The Earth And The Aliens - Called Boov - Abducted Her Mother? Or When The Boov Declared Earth A Colony, Renamed It “smekland” (in Honor Of Glorious Captain Smek), And Forced All Americans To Relocate To Florida Via Rocketpod?
in Any Case, Gratuity’s Story Is Much, Much Bigger Than The Assignment. It Involves Her Unlikely Friendship With A Renegade Boov Mechanic Named J.lo.; A Futile Journey South To Find Gratuity’s Mother At The Happy Mouse Kingdom; A Cross-country Road Trip In A Hovercar Called Slushious; And An Outrageous Plan To Save The Earth From Yet Another Alien Invasion.
fully Illustrated With “photos,” Drawings, Newspaper Clippings, And Comics Sequences, This Is A Hilarious, Perceptive, Genre-bending Novel By A Remarkable New Talent.
the New York Times - Lisa Von Drasek
parents Want To Know What I Do As A Librarian To Get Their Kids To Try Something New. And The Truth Isnothing. There Is Not Much I Can Do, Except Wait Along With Them For The Book: A Story So Original, So Absorbing And So Laugh-out-loud Funny That The Minute I Read The Last Page, I Want To Start At The Beginning Again. the True Meaning Of Smekday Is That Book…this First Novel By Adam Rex Will Captivate Fans Of The Wordplay And Characters In Terry Pratchett's discworld And Of The Outrageously Entertaining Satire Of Douglas Adams's hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy…although It's A Book For Children, Adults Will Find This Page Turner, Really A Satire About The Conquering Of Foreign Cultures, Entertaining As Well. Its Pacing And Cadence Make It A Perfect Story For Reading Aloud, And It's Almost Impossible To Resist Sharing Great Lines With People Nearby.
Categories:
- Children's Books
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Science Fiction
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Author : Rex, Adam
Language : English
Edition : Illustrated
Published :2009-05-05
Number Of Pages : 432
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 0786849010
ISBN-13 : 9780786849017
Item weight : 0.64 lb
Dimensions : 1.1 in x 5.28 in x 7.52 in
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