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Original author: Sarah Fine and Walter Jury
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Published by Putnam Children’s
ISBN 0399160655 (ISBN13: 9780399160653)

SYNOPSIS
Tate and his father don’t exactly get along. As Tate sees it, his father has unreasonably high expectations for Tate to be the best—at everything. Tate finally learns what he’s being prepared for when he steals one of his dad’s odd tech inventions and mercenaries ambush the school, killing his father in the process and sending Tate on the run from aliens who look just like humans.

All Tate knows–like how to make weapons out of oranges and lighter fluid–may not be enough to save him as he’s plunged into a secret inter-species conflict that’s been going on for centuries. Aided only by his girlfriend and his estranged mother, with powerful enemies closing in on all sides, Tate races to puzzle out the secret behind his father’s invention and why so many are willing to kill for it.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Walter Jury works in the film industry. This is his debut novel. S. E. Fine is a clinical child pyschologist and the author of Sanctum, the first book in the Guards of the Shadowlands series.


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