Bedford Public Library

Weird kid, Greg van Eekhout

eng

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Ages 8-12, HarperCollinsGrades 4-6, HarperCollins

fiction

Weird kid

Greg van Eekhout

Jake Foster, a shapeshifting alien of goo disguised as a human, and his spunky friend Agnes investigate the mysterious takeover of their neighbors by "imblobsters" and uncover the reason Jake is losing control of his ability to keep his human shape"Jake Wind is trying to stay under the radar. Whose radar? Anyone who might be too interested in the fact that he has shapeshifting abilities he can?t control. Or that his parents found him as a ball of goo when he was a baby. Keeping his powers in check is crucial, though, if he wants to live a normal life and go to middle school instead of being homeschooled (and if he wants to avoid being kidnapped and experimented on, of course). Things feel like they?re going his way when he survives his first day of school without transforming and makes a new friend. But when mysterious sinkholes start popping up around town?sinkholes filled with the same extraterrestrial substance as Jake?and his neighbors, classmates, and even his family start acting a little, well, weird, Jake will have to learn to use his powers in order to save his town."--Amazon.com

pre adolescent