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The DARK SIDE of Nowhere, by Neal Shusterman really supprised me about how good it was! It starts out in Billington with the main character, Jason at school hearing about his friend's death. His name is Eathan and supposedly died from appendicitis. You could hear his screams from your house. So when the announcements said Ethan died, Jason oddly bursts out of the room laughing with his friend Wesley. Paula finds them and tells them they shouldn't have done that and turns around to find Grant the janator behind them. He tells them Ethan is not really dead when you think he isn't. Later, Jas and Wes go to a little leuge game when the billington bullets are against a team from out of town. Paula the pitcher is having a no hit game because this guy infront of Jason is saying bad things about her. Jason doesn't realize this and steps on his hand on perpose. so they get in a fight and Jason gets beat up bad. When he goes to the bathroom to wash-up, he finds Grant, the janitor. He offers a training bb glove to him and tells him to keep it an absolute secret. Jason, however, shows Paula the glove and she is curious. so she runs away to old town, an old abandoned town, with jason right behind her. She immediatly forgets the glove when she looks inside and finds two things. first thing, a picture of billy chambers, a kid at school who she replaced him as pitcher, and second, a carving on a pantry that says GOD HELP US. These are mysterious to Paula and Jason, but Jason will find out what they mean later in the book. So Jason gets the message from Grant after his shots to come back to old town to start his training with the bb glove. When he gets there, he finds out that there are about two dozen more kids with bb gloves. After a while, Jason comes home from Paula's house after asking her out to find his parents packing up. They say they're leaving and he has to come with them. He shows them the training glove and his father gets angry. He brings Jason to old town and shows him the inside of the old celler. there is a UFO [ as I like to call it ] Parked there. He shows Jason the inside and talks to him. he says the reason the people in old town died was becaue when the UFO landed, it released a poison and left the people dying over a short period of time (like a weeks time). Then he goes on to tell him that the people who landed in the ship were his parents and the parents of the kids who had training gloves. The reason they looked human was because they took the DNA of the people that were killed by the poison. Jason really looks like J.J. Pohl. He was the town hero and got a purple heart in Vietnam. the shots they were taking kept them looking human. Also, the kids got new shots which is making Wesley think they are getting killed because of the hair loss. So they go over to Grant's house to find out what's going on. Jason makes a statement that everyone agrees with, so Grant puts him in charge. He said he will tell everything to Jason and Jason will tell everything to them. Grant takes him inside the house and takes him to a secret part of the basement that has a alien on a slab. It looks incredible and then it moves and when it talks it sounds like Ethan. Ethan goes on to tell jason that the shots they are taking are making them look like him but slowly. He didn't die from appendicits, he blacked out for about two weeks because the pain of turning back into an alien without shots is very painful. Then after a few weeks of training Jason finds out that the aliens are going to land and they are going to take over them. He thinks the plan stinks and runs away because of it. he comes back after hearing that Wesley spazzed in the middle of the night and went into the celler leting no one come down or him come up. When he comes back to camp, everything is fine and Grant shows up. Jason makes a deal with him that if he and Wesley come up, they can both leave and not be harmed, or if Jason comes up alone, Grant can put him through whatever he likes. Grant accepts this deal so Jason gets to work. when going down he sees Ethan's dead body. For real this time. So he talks to Wes and after a while, he finds out that Wes started the ship and its about to take off. So he K.O. Wes and drags him out. Grant sees this, asks what happened and goes down to stop it. The ship goes up with him in it and then comes down to the ground and explodes in a million pieces. When he comes back with everyone else, Billy Chambers attacks him with his new glove that can melt trees. Paula, out of the middle of nowhere throws a rock at him and his Bill square in the face. When Jason gets up, suddenly, he gets major pain in the gut falls to the ground. his last thought was I'm dying of appendicitis, sees everyone rushing twords him and blacks out. I'm sorry but the rest of this book is classified information and you have to read to find out the rest. I really likedthis book and I would highly recomend it to people who are into science fiction. draft media type="custom" key="7801209"