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344 pp.
| Simon/Aladdin
| October, 2009
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TradeISBN 978-1-4169-8298-2$16.99
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4-6
Aliens live on Earth, and fourteen-year-old Gene Brennick is determined to reveal them all. When his weekly newsletter exposes a rival school's guidance counselor's extraterrestrial identity, an intergalactic family feud threatens all aliens' safety. The aliens' underwhelming powers and lonely lives are good foils for Gene's melodramatic teen angst in this comedy about misguided persistence and unexpected inheritances.