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Sedoti, Chelsea. IT CAME FROM THE SKY Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Fire, [2020] IL YA ISBN 9781492673026 |
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Have you ever told a small lie, just to get out of trouble? It’s okay if you have, we’ve all done it. But has one of your stories ever snowballed to include an active FBI investigation, a stolen cow, a Multi Level Marketing scheme, the world’s biggest lava lamp, two separate cults and a traveling commune? Not to mention ruined your mom’s career, your chances of ever getting into MIT, and quite possibly your relationship with your very cute kind-of boyfriend who is just sick of it all? It was supposed to be a small, controlled explosion just to test a scientific theory. No one was supposed to even know about it. But Ishmael added a few extra explosives when Gideon wasn’t looking and it turned into a big explosion, the kind that leaves a crater in your parents’ field. So when Ishmael said it was a meteor hit, Gideon went along with it. Later, when Ishmael went even bigger and claimed it was aliens, Gideon didn’t have much of a choice, did he? Except to play along and make sure that everybody in their hometown (and a whole lot more outside it) knew that aliens were real and they were really invading. (Georgia Peach Book Award, 2022) |
| SUBJECTS: Pennsylvania -- Fiction. Hoaxes -- Fiction. Extraterrestrial beings -- Fiction. Brothers -- Fiction. Family life -- Pennsylvania -- Fiction. Humorous stories. |
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