Aliens in the Sky

Informationen zum Autor Christopher Pike is a bestselling young adult novelist and has published several adult books as well— Sati  and  The Season of Passage  being the most popular. In YA, his Last Vampire series—often called Thirst—is a big favorite among his fans. Pike was born in Brooklyn, New York, but grew up in Los Angeles. He lives in Santa Barbara, California, with his longtime partner, Abir. Currently, several of Pike’s books are being turned into films, including The Midnight Club, which Netflix released as part of a ten-part series.  The Midnight Club  also draws from a half dozen of Pike’s earlier works. Presently,  The Season of Passage  is being adapted as a feature film by Universal Studios while  Chain Letter— one of Pike all-time bestselling books—is also being adapted by Hollywood. At the moment, Pike is hard at work on a new YA series.   Klappentext When Adam and his friends stay up late one night, they see bright lights in the sky lights that look an awful lot like flying saucers! Then the next night, one of the saucers lands by the reservoir. The creatures that come out of the ship don't look like people at all. Their heads are too large and their eyes are too big and black. Worse, the want Adam and his friends to come with them for a little ride in space. In fact, the aliens insist that they come. Then the flying saucer takes off! And it doesn't look like they'll be coming back anytime soon. Can Adam, Watch, Sally, and Andy figure out a way to get home?Aliens in the Sky 1 Spooksville seldom got really hot. Nestled among the hills beside the ocean, Spooksville was usually cooled by a breeze preventing it from becoming uncomfortable, even in the middle of summer. But in the last half of July, only a couple of weeks after Adam Freeman and his friends got trapped in the Haunted Cave, the temperature rose sharply. At midday the thermometer burst past a hundred degrees. To get away from the heat, Sally Wilcox suggested they head up to the reservoir. “We won’t go in the water,” she said. “You don’t want to do that. But it’s always cooler up there.” The four of them: Sally, Adam, Watch, and Cindy were seated on Cindy Makey’s porch, drinking sodas and wiping their sweat-soaked foreheads. Adam stared at the half-burnt-down lighthouse—less than a quarter of a mile away—where he had wrestled with a ghost earlier in the summer. He felt as if he were about to catch fire. He couldn’t remember it ever being so hot where he used to live in Kansas City, which was known for its hot summers. He wondered what had brought the heat. “Why can’t we go in the water?” Cindy asked. “Because you’ll die,” Sally said simply. “There are no fish in the reservoir,” Watch added. “So there’s got to be something unhealthy about the water.” “But Spooksville gets its water from the reservoir,” Adam said. “That’s why so many children in this town are born mutated,” Sally said. Cindy smiled. “You were born here, Sally. That explains a lot.” “Not all mutations are bad,” Sally replied. “The water is filtered before we drink it,” Watch said. “What’s filtered out?” Adam asked. “I don’t know,” Watch said. “But it must be toxic stuff. The filtration plant has a habit of blowing up every couple of years.” “Why’s it cooler at the reservoir?” Adam asked. Sally spoke. “Because Madeline Templeton—the witch who founded this city two hundred years ago—tortured fifty innocent people to death up there. The horror of that event psychically reverberates to this day, making the whole area cold as ice.” Cindy made a face. “And you want to go up there to cool off?” Sally shrugged. “There is horror on almost every street in Spooksv...

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Pike
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 8 to 12
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.10.2014
• EAN: 9781481410595
• ISBN: 978-1-4814-1059-5
• No. of pages: 128
• Series: Spooksville; Spooksville
• Subject: Children's and young people's books