How to Sell Your Family to the Aliens
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Chapter Book · Ages 8–12 · 2018

How to Sell Your Family to the Aliens

By Paul Noth

Part of the How to Sell Your Family to the Aliens series

A boy accidentally sells his family to aliens. Can he get them back?

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Happy Conklin Jr., a 10-year-old with a peculiar beard, dreams of a normal life. His inventor dad's fortune is controlled by their tyrannical Grandma, who lives lavishly while the family resides in a basement. In a bid to change his fate, Hap tries to swap Grandma but mistakenly sells his entire family to aliens. Now, Hap must navigate this cosmic blunder and find a way to bring them back. Can he outwit the aliens and restore his family, or will his quest for normalcy lead to more chaos?

From the publisher

This is an out-of-this-world funny first book in a madcap, illustrated adventure series from New Yorker cartoonist Paul Noth. Happy Conklin Jr. is the only 10-year-old who has to shave three times a day. Hap’s dad is a brilliant inventor of screwball products, and being a Conklin kid means sometimes being experimented on. So Hap has his beard, and his five sisters each have their own unique–and often problematic–qualities too. And although Hap’s dad has made a fortune with his wacky inventions sold via nonstop TV infomercials, all of that money has gone to Hap’s tyrannical Grandma. While she lives in an enormous mansion, the rest of the family lives in two rooms in the basement. All Hap has ever wanted is to have a normal life, so when he sees a chance to get rid of Grandma, he takes it! He only means to swap out Grandma, but when he–oops!–sells his whole family to the aliens, he wants nothing more than to get them back. He just has to figure out . . . how?

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Format
Paperback
Pages
224
Reading age
8–12
Audience
Middle Grade
Lexile
710L
Themes & topics
Books about familyBooks about inventionsBooks about aliens and extraterrestrial beings
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Book details

Reading levels
ATOS
4.8
F&P level
~Q
AR points
5
AR interest level
MG
AR quiz
194931
Publication
Published
June 4, 2019
First published
April 3, 2018
Edition
Language
English
Type
Chapter Book
Identifiers
ISBN
9781547600076

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