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The True Meaning of Smekday

The True Meaning of Smekday

Rex, Adam
Rex, Adam

Paperback

Series: Smek Smeries, Book 1

AnimalsGeneral Juvenile FictionScience Fiction

Publisher Price: $14.99

ISBN10: 0786849010
ISBN13: 9780786849017
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: May 1 2009
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.62
Height: 1.08 Width: 5.50 Depth: 7.40
Language: English
Awards: Cybils, Iowa Children's Choice (ICCA) Award, Land of Enchantment Book Award
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.

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