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基本信息·出版社：Tor Teen
·页码：304 页
·出版日期：2007年06月
·ISBN：0765314231
·International Standard Book Number：0765314231
·条形码：9780765314239
·EAN：9780765314239
·版本：1st
·装帧：精装
·正文语种：英语
内容简介 Seventeen-year-old Emily and her best friend Reese can't wait for summer vacation on Cape Cod. Every year, it's the same thing: high hopes that they may finally hook up with some cool guys...and it never happens. But this year, they're sure it's going to be different. So it's totally amazing when out of nowhere they meet two unbelievably adorable boys who are just too cute to be true! Which, they soon discover, may be the case. A lot of odd things happen when Steve and Dave are around. Reese figures it's because they're not from around here. So where are they from, France? Well, not quite... Summoned from the depths of the sea by the dire threat of global pollution, friendly aliens "Steve and Dave" have manifested themselves in human form and come ashore in a last desperate effort to save the oceans.
作者简介 Blake Nelson is the author of several critically-acclaimed books for children and teens. They include
Gender Blender,
Prom Anonymous, Rock Star Superstar, and
Girl. He divides his time between Portland, Oregon and New York City.
媒体推荐 ?When two sixth graders magically change bodies after bumping their heads together, the results are traumatic for them but hilarious for readers.?--Starred Review,
Publishers Weekly on
Gender Blender "In this year's best offering on the rock band life, Nelson gives an entertaining and realistic insider's view....Readers will likely lap up this look at what it's like for a band trying to make it.?--Starred Review,
Publishers Weekly on
Rock Star Superstar "An especially mature and incisive look inside the heart of a teenager who believes that he might already have seen the best that life and love have to offer."--Starred Review,
Publishers Weekly on
The New Rules of High School 专业书评 From Publishers WeeklyInitially, this novel reads like a spoof on B-grade science fiction with the introduction of some very improbable events. First, there is a nuclear explosion in the ocean. Then, an unidentifiable blob washes onto a Cape Cod beach and two strangers with odd mannerisms and ways of speaking suddenly appear in town. Yet it soon becomes clear that Nelson (
Paranoid Park) has something more profound in mind than tracking an alien invasion. After 17-year-old Emily and her sidekick Reese befriend the two strangers—who go by Steve and Dave and claim to be linguistic students—they experience some strange phenomena, such as being able to sense what animals are thinking and having euphoric dreams (It was like I was floating on air and the sun was superclose to me.... and I somehow knew everything was okay and everyone loved everyone and the Earth was the best place in the entire galaxy). After witnessing the duo's remarkable healing powers, Emily suspects that there is something unearthly about them—suspicions that are confirmed when they reveal their true identities, histories and knowledge of the universe. Woven into the story are environmentalist themes and prophetic ideas that pack a punch and may inspire contemplation about the Earth's uncertain future. Offering wittiness, suspense and ideologies borrowed from Eastern religions, Nelson reaches a new level of depth and creativity with this intriguing depiction of one very weird summer. Ages 13-up.
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文摘 Chapter One ?Cape Cod! Oh my god!? I said quietly to myself, staring out the airplane window. Of course it wasn?t Cape Cod at all, it was just Boston harbor, but I was so excited to get there I couldn?t help myself. I couldn?t wait. I had been trying to concentrate on my summer-reading book, trying to do a crossword, but now I gave up on everything and just mashed my face against the little plastic window. Soon Boston?s downtown appeared beneath the airplane. It was much bigger than Indianapolis. It was much more complicated and tangled and just . . . older, I guess. I could see a stadium. Was it Fenway Park? Probably. There was a river that was brown and polluted looking. The whole city was brown and grimy and smoggy in the June heat. They were having a heat wave; I had been following it on the Weather Channel. As we got closer you could see the highways leading in and out of it, like arteries going to a heart. We landed with a thump. I got off the plane and went downstairs and there was my dad at the baggage claim, looking tan and summery. I love my dad. It was so great to see him. He gave me a big hug and we carried my stuff to the car. Then, going out of town, we stopped at a Dunkin? Donuts and got delicious iced lattes and crunchy plain donuts. I was so psyched to be going back to the Cape. My dad asked me about school and Indy and my mom, and we talked about everything. It was so fun to be riding along, letting my head lean back and watching the sun and the highway move past. Then, after a couple hours, we got to the ocean. It was late afternoon and you could see the water through the trees and the sky was blue and the beach was so white and clean. We stopped at an overlook so I could do my ritual, which is: I get out of the car, take off my regular shoes, throw them in the backseat, and put on my flip-flops . . . and
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