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This book starts out with a boy named Ethan dieing and everybody said it was
appendicitis however later Jason and some others realized it wasn’t. Jason
didn’t like his life because he thought it was too boring and he thought his
parents were too nice because they never punished him too badly. Also at Ethan’s
wedding, Jason wondered why Ethan’s parents didn’t cry but his dad said it was
shock however later Jason learned Ethan hadn’t died at all. At a Little League
game in Billington, Jason got in a fight with a boy because that boy was
insulting the pitcher who was the girl that Jason liked. He got badly beat up
and he went to the restroom to take care of the bruises that he had gotten. Then
his school janitor, Mr. Grant, walked inside the restroom and gave Jason a glove
that shot out BBs however Jason learned that the glove shot BBs by himself. He
also told him to meet by a barn in a place called Old Town to learn what to do
with it. The next day, Paula, the pitcher that Jason liked, went to Jason’s
house and told him he ruined her no-hitter yesterday. She was turning to leave
but Jason wanted her to stay there so he decided to show her the glove Grant had
given him even though Grant said not to show anyone the glove. He went to the
back of his backyard and showed it to her. Then they went to Old Town because
they got carried away in a “game” when Paula took the glove because she wanted
to know where Jason had gotten the glove. They went into Old Town and they found
many sightings that were “weird” such as a picture of a person that looked
exactly like Billy Chambers who was a kid that went to their school and they saw
a message carved into a wall that said, “God Help Us”.
At school the next day,
Jason said he had to get his monthly shots so he couldn’t help Paula search
around Old Town. Jason and everybody else who did receive them thought they were
for health however they learned later that they were to keep their natural
bodies and not their alien bodies. The next day was the day that Jason was
supposed to meet to learn about the glove however Paula wanted him to help
search for the truth about Old Town however he said he had a meeting and Wesley
saved him by saying it was a Boy Scout meeting because Wesley also had to meet
there. Wesley had received his glove 2 months before and he along with many
others was sent to go there. Jason realized that these were all people who had
parents that were their parents’ closest friends. At home, his parents said they
were moving and they were not going to stay in Billington. Jason wanted to know
why and he pulled out the glove that he got from Grant. His dad furiously
wondered where he had gotten that and he got very mad. He finally went out and
went to a storm cellar in Old Town that was actually a space ship. There,
Jason’s dad told him everything: about how he was an alien and how they got to
Earth and about them stealing the faces of the human civilians that previously
lived there before they were killed. At school the kids talked about them being
alien because most of their parents had told them. Also Jason learned that the
monthly shots were turning into weekly shots. Also the kids learned that Ethan
really hadn’t died, he was just in alien form so he couldn’t come to school.
Also they turned the meetings for the aliens into everyday since it was summer
and the people begin thinking they were better than everyone. A few days later
people rushed to Jason’s house because they were becoming the aliens in the form
that they actually were.
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