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1-3Blast Off Boy and Blorp series.
Blast Off Boy, an Earth exchange student on planet Meep, feels hopelessly alone and behind in his weird new school; Blorp, the Meep exchange student, enthusiastically takes on his Earth school, but his classmates find him pretty alien. Delightfully retro typeface and Jetson-style space illustrations tell a decidedly down-to-earth tale of a kid fitting into a new class--and a class accepting a new kid.