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Rodkey, Geoff. WE'RE NOT FROM HERE New York : Crown Books for Young Readers, [2019] IL 6-8 ISBN 9781524773045 3 booktalks |
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Booktalk #1 When the last humans from Earth need a new home, it looks like Planet Choom would be perfect. There’s only one problem, the Zhuri already live there! One family is chosen to represent humanity to the Zhuri to evaluate if the two species can live together. Unfortunately, that means Lan and Ila will have to go to Zhuri school! Will they be able to fit in? Can they make a good impression on the Zhuri? And what if there are some Zhuri who don’t want them there in the first place? Find out all the answers in this sci-fi story from Geoff Rodkey (Sunshine State Young Readers Award Books 2020-2021) Booktalk #2 Planet Earth has been destroyed and living on Mars is no longer an option. One human family is chosen to get help from the Planet Choom. Will they be accepted on this new planet? Or will they be sent back to Mars, with no hope for survival? Science Fiction. (Rhode Island Middle School Book Award 2021) Booktalk #3 Earth is now uninhabitable, and Mars doesn’t readily support human life – so the remainder of the human race, en masse, heads out to Planet Choom, world of the Zhuri, who look like giant mosquitoes, the marshmallow-like Ororo, the Krik (green werewolves), and the Nug (giant worms). By the time the human ships arrive at their destination, however, after twenty years in bio-suspension, the government of Choom has changed hands and no longer wants to accept human refugees. Young Lan Mifune and family are picked as a test case, tasked with proving - in the face of anti-human government propaganda - that humans can assimilate with other races and live in peace. (Vermont Middle Grade Book Award, 2021) |
| SUBJECTS: Extraterrestrial beings -- Fiction. Human beings -- Fiction. Outer space -- Fiction. |
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