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The book is the sequel to I Was A Sixth Grade Alien, so you have to read the first to understand the second. The series (there are more) is about an alien kid named Pleskit, the son of an alien diplomat on a peace mission to Earth. He is sent to an American public school, and by the end of the first book, he and earthling Tim have become best friends.

In the first half of this book, Tim tries to get Pleskit to be more "cool," so they go to that bastion of coolness, the mall. The insights about the pressure to be cool are both apt and funny, but about midway through the book, I was wondering, "What does all this have to do with a two-inch teacher?"

She comes into the picture when Tim and Pleskit are back at school. And as I said, what happens makes for the funniest physics lesson you will ever read. All the earlier stuff was worth it; it turns out to be foreshadowing. And the climax - wow! My middle kid literally jumped out of his seat! So if you've got a kid who thinks science is boring, give him this book. He'll learn something and have a great time doing it. ]]>