*There are two of them in the boxing ring.* *One weighs 145 pounds, stands 5 foot 5, and is twenty-six years old.* *The other one? Nobody knows his weight and it doesn't matter how tall he is, he'll grow.* *No one has bandaged his wrists, he's wearing boxing gloves, he's bouncing on his toes i
On Earth as It Is on Television
β Scribed by Emily Jane
- Book ID
- 111648852
- Publisher
- Disney Book Group
- Year
- 2023
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 584 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781368093859
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
First Contact stories have never been as intoxicating and fun as in Emily Jane's novel of the sudden arrivalβand equally sudden departureβof spaceships above Earth. The arrival of spaceships can bring up a lot of big questions: What does it mean that we're not alone? Why did aliens come here? Who knew beforehand? Where.... are the aliens going? Wait... They can't just leave! Without inviting us into their galactic federationβor at the very least obliterating us! In Emily Jane's debutβa rollicking paean to what it means to be alive in the twenty-first centuryβthe fleeting presence of alien vessels, and the certainty that humans are not alone in the universe, sparks intense uncertainty as to our place within it. Blaine has always been content to go along with whatever his supermom wife and television-addicted, half-feral children want. But when the kids blithely ponder skinning people to see if they're aliens, and his wife announces a surprise road trip to Disney World, even steady...
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