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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.
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Children's fiction, Missing persons, fiction, Automobile travel, fiction, Extraterrestrial beings, fiction, Science fiction, Humorous stories, New York Times reviewed, Extraterrestrial beings, Juvenile fiction, Alien abduction, Fiction, Automobiles, Human-alien encounters, Automobile travel, Humorous fiction, Missing persons, Human-alien encounters in fiction, Alien abduction in fiction, Missing persons in fiction, Automobile travel in fiction, Extraterrestrial beings in fiction, Spanish language materials, Rapto por extraterrestres, Encuentros humanos con extraterrestres, Ficción juvenil, Ficcion juvenil, Automóviles, Children's stories, FantasyEdition | Availability |
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Cada um na sua Casa
Nov 16, 2015, GUTENBERG - AUTENTICA
paperback
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True Meaning of Smekday (Movie Tie-In Edition)
2015, Hyperion Books for Children
in English
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True Meaning of Smekday, The: Movie Tie-In Edition | The Series That Inspired HOME (Single Title (One-Off) Book 1)
Feb 10, 2015, Disney Hyperion
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True Meaning of Smekday
2012, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
in English
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The True Meaning of Smekday
Mar 08, 2011, Listening Library (Audio)
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True Meaning of Smekday
Jan 01, 2010, San Val, Perfection Learning
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The true meaning of Smekday
2007, Hyperion Books for Children
in English
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0786849002 9780786849000
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True Meaning of Smekday, The
October 2, 2007, Hyperion
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The True Meaning of Smekday - Film Tie-in to HOME, the Major Animation
Aug 28, 2001, Bloomsbury Childrens
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