Author: Chris Charter
Illustrator: Kim Smith
Genre: Fantasy and Science Fiction
Awards: None
Grades: 1st-4th
Friends Dana and Fox are having a sleep over outside
in a tent. They finished reading a book about aliens before bed which made Fox
really scared. They both went outside the tent to look for aliens before bed. Fox
would spy different things that made him believe there were real aliens
outside, but Dana would always explain the real reasons behind it. Once they
realized there were no aliens, they went inside the tent and saw two aliens
inside. They ran inside the house really scared and decided to sleep in their
room. At the end, the parents take off their masks and are aliens as well.
I would not use this book in my classroom because I do not like the ending. It personally caught me by surprise and startled me a bit, so I would not like my young students to feel the same. The older the student reads it like in fourth grade he better. I would only use this book in my classroom to teach students about the genre but would probably skip the ending where the parents take off their masks.
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