Sputnik's guide to life on earth

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Label

Sputnik's guide to life on earth

Statement of responsibility

Frank Cottrell Boyce

Title variation

Sputniks guide to life on earth

Creator

• Cottrell Boyce, Frank,
• trueCottrell Boyce, Frank

Author

• Cottrell Boyce, Frank,

Subject

• trueChildren who are mute
• trueDogs
• trueEnd of the world
• End of the world -- Juvenile fiction
• trueFamilies
• Families -- Juvenile fiction
• trueFarms
• trueFoster children
• Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
• trueGrandfathers
• Human-alien encounters -- Juvenile fiction
• trueQuests
• trueScience fiction
• trueScotland
• trueSummer
• trueMissing persons
• trueAliens
• trueBoys

Genre

• Juvenile fiction
• trueScience fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Prez knows that the best way to keep track of things is to make a list. That's important when you have a grandfather who is constantly forgetting. And it's even more important when your grandfather can't care for you anymore and you have to go live with a foster family. Prez is still learning to fit in at his new home when he answers the door to meet Sputnik, a kid who is more than a little strange. First, he can hear what Prez is thinking. Second, he looks like a dog to everyone except Prez. Third, he can manipulate the laws of space and time. Sputnik is an alien, and he's got a mission that requires Prez's help: the Earth has been marked for destruction, and the only way they can stop it is to come up with ten reasons why the planet should be saved. Thus begins one of the most fun and eventful summers of Prez's life, as he and Sputnik set out on a journey to compile the most important list Prez has ever made, and discover just what makes our world so remarkable

Tone

• trueFeel-good
• trueFunny

Character

• trueAbility diverse

Award

School Library Journal Best Books, 2017

Cataloging source

PABRO

Dewey number

[Fic]

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• 530
• Ages 8-12
• 530L
• Decoding demand: 92 (very high)
• Semantic demand: 100 (very high)
• Syntactic demand: 79 (high)
• Structure demand: 86 (very high)

Intended audience source

• Lexile
• Lexile
• Lexile

Interest level

MG

LC call number

PZ7.C829

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

530

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 4
• 7

Reading level

4.0

Study program name

Accelerated Reader AR

Target audience

pre adolescent