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Chosen for intelligence,\nleadership,
\nand weirdness…<\/p>\n
Chosen for intelligence,
\nleadership,
\nand weirdness…<\/p>\n
Of course, an intensive school on space station requires the best and brightest students from every known civilization – so why is sci-fi nerd Zeke the fourth kid on Earth’s team?<\/p>\n
Because our popular sci-fi movies<\/a> and television shows were preparing us for the actual alien tech that’s out there!<\/p>\n Look for Randoms<\/em> in hardcover or paperback at your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a> now before grabbing book 2, Rebels<\/em><\/a>. Book 3, Renegades<\/em><\/a>, hits the shelves in September 2017.<\/p>\n What does your favorite sci-fi teach us about life and friendship? Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0Randoms (Randoms, book 1) \/ David Liss. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, hardcover 2015; paperback 2016. [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 [author video<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n My book talk<\/strong>: Recruited by the President for school on a space station, sixth grade gamer and average kid Zeke didn’t expect to be shunned by his fellow Earth students (all incredibly brilliant), visit other planets (picking up more teams for the competition), or discover that his favorite sci-fi shows were based on real alien technologies!<\/p>\n Then the attacks begin!<\/p>\n Earth’s future in the Confederation is at stake, so why was Zeke chosen? Filled with quotes and references to all the science fiction movies, TV shows, games, and books that we love (or hate), Randoms<\/em> is a rip-roaring ride into interspecies and intergalactic interactions. First in the trilogy, followed by Rebels<\/em> (book 2) and Renegades<\/em> (book 3).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chosen for intelligence, leadership, and weirdness… Of course, an intensive school on space station requires the best and brightest students from every known civilization – so why is sci-fi nerd Zeke the fourth kid on Earth’s team? Because our popular sci-fi movies and television shows were preparing us for the actual alien tech that’s out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,19,68,62],"tags":[10,90,22,4,11,45,20,5,16,44,46,43,49,15,21,66,35,33,58,3,6,8,28,59],"class_list":["post-8298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","category-future","category-science-fiction","tag-a2z","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-communication","tag-competition","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-friendship","tag-funny","tag-growing-up","tag-memories","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-series","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-technology","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-us-author","tag-villains","tag-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/randoms-9781481417808_hr.jpg?fit=1399%2C2098&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8298"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8581,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8298\/revisions\/8581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n**kmm<\/p>\n
\nHow can he help his team succeed when they want him to stay away?
\nCan he level up enough that the US government will keep their promise to cure Mom?<\/p>\n