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Gr 4-7 Oluu is a capricious, shape-shifting alien sent to Earth on a fact-finding mission. She has rules to follow-keep your identity secret, don't get attached to your subjects, check in daily, and so on. She ignores them all, befriending humans and going incommunicado for days on end. The narrative follows a familiar "fish-out-of-water" formula, complete with misunderstandings that are more troubling than hilarious, all leading up to the moment when Oluu comes to love her young...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

"If you don't want people to know you're different, you'll have to figure out how to blend in." Ten-year-old Molly Harkin is talking to an argumentative and arrogant shape-shifting extraterrestrial named Oluu, but she might well be giving this debatable advice to her analytical classmate and neighbor, Jack Molloy, who isolates himself from his peers and claims he doesn't need friends. Each in his or her own way, these three young people struggle with feeling different and alone, finding their place in the world (or in the universe), and remaining true to themselv...Log In or Sign Up to Read More