SuitabookBelonging and identity
Ixdahan is exiled from his homeworld, changed into a human boy and required to navigate human teenage life.
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Mark Laporta - Author
Expect an inventive science-fiction adventure about belonging, friendship and responsibility, told through an alien teenager’s struggle to understand human life while helping oppose an invasion.
"17-year old Ixdahan Daherek has way too much time to second guess himself. Exiled to Earth for crimes against the Homeworld, he has a lot to get used to at first -including his first friendship with a human high school girl, Lena Gabrilowicz (not to mention the whole concept of feet). But soon he's got bigger problems: The Vrukaari are mounting a brutal invasion of Earth. From the moment the first mutant mailbox appears, Ixdahan is in a race against time. With the help of Lena and his other human friends, he hatches a plot requiring ingenuity, tight telepathic control and the captain of the girls' varsity swim team. But at five minutes to Doomsday, the race is too close to call. Will Ixdahan's counterattack be stopped by a tentacled police force, a teenage zombie or an aural hallucination with a serious attitude problem? Only one thing is certain: when zero hour arrives, the fate of Earth may depend on a shimmering bowl of lime Jell-o"--Page 4 of cover.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceExpect an inventive science-fiction adventure about belonging, friendship and responsibility, told through an alien teenager’s struggle to understand human life while helping oppose an invasion.
Ixdahan is exiled from his homeworld, changed into a human boy and required to navigate human teenage life.
Ixdahan has been exiled after selling confidential information and later works with friends against the Vrukaari invasion.
Ixdahan becomes friends with Lena and other human teenagers while struggling to understand human social life.
The story includes an alien invasion, threats to Earth, exile, bodily transformation and intimidating antagonists.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
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