Aliens in the Family
by Margaret Mahy
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Jake Raven, expecting to dislike her new stepsister and stepbrother, ends up helping them protect an alien from another dimension as he flees from mysterious pursuers with the ability to alter time.Tags
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Kinda a little awkward at times, but I really enjoyed it. It reminded me of some of the works by [a:William Sleator|14004|William Sleator|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1206554364p2/14004.jpg], perhaps particularly [b:Singularity|938172|Singularity|William Sleator|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348435254l/938172._SY75_.jpg|2788104], in that the SF was cool, but the personal stories made it worthy. I can easily see a young person reading this at age 8, and again at 10, and again at 12, and getting more out of it each time. I would have.
Btw, all the covers are bad. Don't judge the book itself by them....
Btw, all the covers are bad. Don't judge the book itself by them....
Jake is going to visit her father and his new wife and family. It’s been over a year since she’d seen him. She wanted to see him but didn’t figure his new family would like her or she would like them.
Dora, the girly-girl type and Lewis the nerdy brother are both stunned by Jake in her fringed suede jacket and cowboy hat, and Jake didn’t expect what her father’s new family was like. Was this visit going to work out? Each family member had their thoughts…
Shortly after Jake’s arrival, Dora meets Bond and brings him home. It seems he was being chased, so Dora helped him escape and thought hiding him in their garage was a safe idea. What she didn’t know is that he is an alien from a different planet!
The children learn Bond is show more an alien and that he is on Earth to learn and catalogue all the information he can for his peoples’ universal knowledge base. He also needs to get back home…and that is a bit complicated.
Through their time together, Dora, Lewis and the two “aliens” Bond and Jake, learn that they may be different, but there are also commonalities between them Through adjustments they can co-exist together. show less
Dora, the girly-girl type and Lewis the nerdy brother are both stunned by Jake in her fringed suede jacket and cowboy hat, and Jake didn’t expect what her father’s new family was like. Was this visit going to work out? Each family member had their thoughts…
Shortly after Jake’s arrival, Dora meets Bond and brings him home. It seems he was being chased, so Dora helped him escape and thought hiding him in their garage was a safe idea. What she didn’t know is that he is an alien from a different planet!
The children learn Bond is show more an alien and that he is on Earth to learn and catalogue all the information he can for his peoples’ universal knowledge base. He also needs to get back home…and that is a bit complicated.
Through their time together, Dora, Lewis and the two “aliens” Bond and Jake, learn that they may be different, but there are also commonalities between them Through adjustments they can co-exist together. show less
WARNING: Contains spoilers
Bond is part of an super-intelligent organization that seeks to compile all the knowledge in the entire universe. Bond as part of his education is sent on a time-travelling mission to earth. He ends up in New Zealand and gets rescued from some baddies by a girl named Dora who is overly concerned about her appearance. Dora's step-sister Jake has come to visit and the children(Dora, Jake and eagle obsessed brother) decide to hide ond as he looks nice. They soon discover that he isn't human and some weird and wonderful things occur to the family in a haunted forest.
Bond is part of an super-intelligent organization that seeks to compile all the knowledge in the entire universe. Bond as part of his education is sent on a time-travelling mission to earth. He ends up in New Zealand and gets rescued from some baddies by a girl named Dora who is overly concerned about her appearance. Dora's step-sister Jake has come to visit and the children(Dora, Jake and eagle obsessed brother) decide to hide ond as he looks nice. They soon discover that he isn't human and some weird and wonderful things occur to the family in a haunted forest.
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Margaret Mahy was born on March 21, 1936 in Whakatane, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. She received a B.A. degree from the University of New Zealand. She worked as a nurse, an assistant librarian, and a children's librarian in England and New Zealand. Her first book, A Lion in the Meadow, was published in 1969. She became a full-time author in 1980. show more During her lifetime, she wrote more than 120 children's books including The Haunting, The Changeover, Memory, The Seven Chinese Brothers, The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate and A Summery Saturday Morning. She won the Esther Glen Award five times, the Carnegie Medal of the British Library Association three times, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Hans Christian Andersen Award, and in 1999, she won the New Zealand Post Children's Book Award in two categories, Picture Book and Supreme Award. She died after a brief illness on July 23, 2012 at the age of 76. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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