A Stranger Thing

Martin Leicht, Isla Neal

• Publisher: S&S/Saga Press
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781442429659

In this witty, adventurous sequel to Mothership, Elvie Nara is back on earth—but her life (including her new baby) is still pretty out there! “Irreverent humor makes this work of science fiction a comic treat” (VOYA).

Pregnancy was pretty rough for Elvie Nara, what with the morning sickness, constant food cravings, and the alien race war she found herself in the middle of. But if she thought giving birth to an extraterrestrial’s baby would be the hard part, she was sorely mistaken.

After Elvie’s baby is not what was expected, the Almiri completely freak out. Suddenly Elvie’s supposed allies have shipped her—along with her father, her best friend, Ducky, and her maybe-boyfriend, boneheaded Almiri commando Cole Archer—off to a remote “retention facility” (aka alien jail) in Antarctica. Talk about cold. But things really get complicated when a new group of hybrid aliens arrive with information that sends Elvie’s world spinning. Before long, Elvie is trekking across the bottom of the Earth with a band of friends and frenemies to uncover the secrets of her own origin. Will Elvie ever be able to convince the Almiri that a conspiracy to conquer the planet is a greater threat than a sixteen-year-old girl and a newborn who won’t stop crying?

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Chapter One: In Which our Heroine Is Licked by a Bear
• Chapter Two: In Which Ducky Barfs for Hours
• Chapter Three: Wherein, Against All odds, our Little Band of Misfits Avoids Making a Single Vanilla Ice Reference . . . Except This one
• Chapter Four: Wherein Cabin Fever Gives Way to Disco Fever (if by “Disco Fever” You Mean “Invasion”)
• Chapter Five: Wherein our Heroine Is All, Like, Whoa
• Chapter Six: In Which the Ice Begins to Crack
• Chapter Seven: In Which our Group Realizes They’re Going to Need a Bigger Float
• Chapter Eight: In Which the Family Nara Visits a Ghost Ship
• Chapter Nine: Wherein old Enemies Become New Not-So-Much Enemies
• Chapter Ten: In Which an Ice-Cold Dip Lands our Heroine in Hot Water
• Chapter Eleven: Wherein the Baddies Give Stan Winston a Run for His Money
• Chapter Twelve: Wherein the Benefits of Fusion-Powered Transportation Become Abundantly Clear
• Chapter Thirteen: In Which the Best-Laid Plans Fly Right out the Window
• About Martin Leicht & Isla Neal
• Copyright