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020			_a9781408859131
040			_aCITU LRAC _beng
082			_aFIC
100	1		_aRex, Adam _eauthor
245			_aThe True meaning of Smekday / _cAdam Rex
264		1	_aLondon : _bBloomsbury Publishing, _c2015
300			_a423 pages ; _c20 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520			_aIt 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.
526			_aFiction
650		1	_aChildren's stories
650		1	_aAliens _vJuvenile fiction
650		1	_aAlien abduction _vJuvenile fiction
942			_2ddc _cBK