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Santa Claus vs The Aliens (English Edition) Formato Kindle

Edizione Inglese di james cardona (Autore) Formato: Formato Kindle
4,1 4,1 su 5 stelle 12 voti
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Finalist, The 2014 Wishing Shelf Book Awards, 9-12 year old category.

In this fast paced, Children's holiday science fiction adventure, Edwin, a fourteen-year-old and an odd character dressed as Santa Claus attempt to stop aliens and save the planet in 1950's Manhattan.
When Edwin cuts his finger, dripping a few drops of blood onto a bone-colored tracking device he becomes a target of a group of aliens that think he holds the secret to the human race's defeat. The only person who seems to know what to do is a fat man wearing a Santa Claus suit and he somehow seems to know just a little too much.
Who is he and why does he know so much? Where did the aliens come from and what are they after? Can a Fourteen-year-old wandering the cold, empty streets of Manhattan late on Christmas Eve and an odd character dressed as Santa Claus stop the aliens, save the planet and discover the true meaning of Christmas?

Readers are calling it "packed with humor, action" and "adventure" and "intelligent and thoroughly enjoyable." Grab hold of this children's science fiction Christmas adventure and take a wild ride.

One day, Edwin's father, Fundy, witnesses a strange object falling out of the sky. When he realizes a person is in it, he helps the red-suited man pull his strange vehicle out of the muck with his horse, Paulo. As Santa flies off, he accidentally drops his ring.
After his encounter with the strange man, Fundy and his wife move to the United States, hoping to find happiness, but instead they eventually get divorced, placing Edwin in a children's home when neither of them could take care of their son. When Edwin is dropped off at the children's home, Fundy gives his son his most prized possession, the Santa's ring.
Several years after his divorce, Fundy has remarried, has a little girl, acquired a decent job, and wishes for Edwin to come back home. Whether for rage or guilt, Edwin cannot bring himself to do this. He feels as though his home is no longer his own as if a strange woman is living there. Edwin knows that he will no longer see his father and actual mother together ever again, but it's just not right to him.

Called, "an absolute gem of a story aimed at our 8 -10 yr olds," it brings "a wonderful slant to a timeless classic" that seems to have always lived around Santa Claus and the gift of Christmas, bringing us closer to that Original Christmas.

As the aliens chase Edwin through the cold, dark streets on Christmas Eve, steadily getting closer and closer, you will run with Edwin as he tries to determine what in the world is going on? Who are those people that are chasing him? Why does Santa seem to know about Edwin being tracked?
Amid the dashing through a city to escape strange people chasing him, our hero discovers things about himself that he has never known and learns just how valuable family really is.
During the fight between Edwin, Santa Claus and the aliens, our hero learns just how much difference loyalty and friendship can make and that family values are the real gifts that Christmas brings.
"There is simply something about the character Edwin that I really fell in love with and latched on to. Perhaps it was his family situation and the decision that he had to make when deciding whether to live with his reconstructed family or stay at a children's home that naturally drew me to him."

A holiday Christmas tale about a dysfunctional family coming together married to a science fiction adventure involving an alien scouting party prior to a full-scale alien invasion, this one is sure to please middle-grade students and adults alike. Set in a 1950's Manhattan, the book has a retro feel but the situations and family conflicts are timeless. A brisk, fast-paced and entertaining novel that constantly engages the reader with new developments, Santa Claus vs the Aliens is full of tense situations interspersed with fun, laughs and comedy.
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  1. Età di lettura
    9 - 12 anni
  2. Lunghezza stampa
    186 pagine
  3. Lingua
    Inglese
  4. Classe
    5 - 8
  5. Data di pubblicazione
    9 novembre 2013
  6. Scorri Pagina
    Abilitato
  7. Word Wise
    Abilitato
  8. Miglioramenti tipografici
    Abilitato
  9. Memo
    Su Kindle Scribe
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James has won multiple awards for his young adult science fiction and fantasy novels including twice being a finalist for the Wishing Shelf Awards and receiving the Independent Book Readers’ Appreciation Group Award. He is planning on writing many, many more, including the release of the fourth and final installment of the apprentice series in 2016. For his fiction, James tries to make his words come alive by pouring his real-life experiences into his characters such that many of the details described in his books actually happened and are told from the perspective of someone who was there. He also enjoys integrating a hard science approach to his science fiction, feeling that all aspects of his story telling, although perhaps not currently possible, could actually happen once our technology evolves. James enjoys all things that can unleash the creative process including drawing, painting and creative writing and the not-so-typical such as robot design and writing computer code. He loves tinkering with computers, electronics and building robots and is the Lead Engineer for FIRST Robotics Team 316, a High School Robotics team operating out of Salem Community College. Additionally James helps organize and run the PSEG Nuclear Salem County Math Showcase which he created back in the year 2000, a math competition for students from grades four through eight, typically attended each year by approximately 500-600 students. James received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Delaware with a minor in Religious Studies. He lives in Southern New Jersey and works as a Senior Test Engineer for the Laboratory and Testing Services group of the Public Service Electric and Gas Company.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00DXXMZY0
  • Editore ‏ : ‎ SJI (9 novembre 2013)
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
  • Dimensioni file ‏ : ‎ 3865 KB
  • Da testo a voce ‏ : ‎ Abilitato
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supportato
  • Miglioramenti tipografici ‏ : ‎ Abilitato
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Non abilitato
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Abilitato
  • Memo ‏ : ‎ Su Kindle Scribe
  • Lunghezza stampa ‏ : ‎ 186 pagine
  • Recensioni dei clienti:
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Future Boy
4,0 su 5 stelle Just when you thought the Macy's Santa Claus was merely a cheerful, festive fellow....
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 6 novembre 2013
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The story was fast paced and quite very unique. This story takes place during the Depression Era, in the late 1930's when La Guardia, one of the most famous mayors of the United States, was king. (LaGuardia Airport, anyone?)

I enjoyed reading about the chase through the department store, all decked out for Christmas, and the harrowing escape through the elevator shaft. The book did have a 1930's - 1950's feel about it, and a New York one too at that.

There was so much action in this book, it was a bit hard to visualize this as a Christmas story, but hey, there's always a new twist on everything, n'est-ce pas?

Love the cover...!!!! Nice unique way to break away from these slick, yet sterile other book covers out there. Reminds me a bit of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid covers and its copycats.
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Gemma Farrow
4,0 su 5 stelle Christmas Surprise
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 25 novembre 2013
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This is a fun and interesting read. I loved the period the story was set in and found the characters engaging and lively. I empathised with Edwin and felt really bad about his family situation.
The aliens were disturbing, and the history behind Santa Claus' origins was fantastic.
The festive spirit was of course the backdrop, but against it was the loneliness Edwin felt, and his fellow roommates, at the Children's Home. There was also the sense of disconnection between the youth and the older generation, and this underpinned the story wonderfully.
The only thing I didn't like was that Edwin's thoughts were in quotation marks, this confused me a bit.
But all in all, a wonderful book for people of all ages.
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Edward Garbowski Jr
5,0 su 5 stelle Quite the adventure!
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 6 novembre 2013
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This is such an interesting read. It will be a great read for boys especially around 14 years old.

Cardona spins a very clever story spanning a couple generations, but focusing on Edwin Cardona and how he is growing up and the adventures he faces. I won't give anything away, but it's very well written and boys of any age will enjoy. If you grew up in the 50s, you'll enjoy it too and it will bring you back in time a little.

It's got aliens and Santa...come on, it's just great! Highly recommended.
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Keeley Frank
3,0 su 5 stelle ... reading something from this author and I wanted to love this story as much as I loved Under the ...
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 8 febbraio 2015
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This is my second time reading something from this author and I wanted to love this story as much as I loved Under the Shadow of Darkness, but unfortunately I didn't.

Edwin is a little boy staying in a boarding home run by nuns. He has a friend there named Frankie, if you could even call Frankie a friend since he is more of a bully than anything else. Edwin has a family that loves him and would like him to move back home, but he doesn't feel comfortable doing that ever since his dad got re-married.

Edwin carries a ring with him that his father gave him before coming to the boarding home and never really thought much about the ring until one night when he accidentally got his blood on the ring. After that Edwin began noticing that these strange gray men were following him everywhere and he couldn't escape them.

One of the many times that Edwin is on the run, he bumps into Santa Claus at a local department store while Santa is on his break from taking pictures with little kids. Soon Santa and Edwin realize they have a lot more in common than they thought and now Edwin has to decide what family really means to him.

This was a cute story, but I had a few problems with it. The first problem was the amount of run-on sentences in this book. At times there were entire pages with only one or two sentences. It definitely kept taking me out of the story and felt more like an oversight than anything else.

The second problem I had with the story was the age of Edwin. Edwin is supposed to be a 14 year old boy, but it definitely read more like Edwin was younger than that. To me the story made more sense if I believed Edwin was really 10 or younger. Again, a minor problem.

The final issue I had with the story was the random religious bits thrown in at the end. They felt completely out of place and I'm not really sure why they were in the story.

Those three things combined made me give the story a 3/5. Overall though I really did enjoy reading about Edwin and Santa. I thought it was a cute idea for a story and definitely one that I could see myself enjoying if I had read it when I was younger. James Cardona is a fantastic fantasy/science fiction writer so it's a little strange to see a shorter story by this author have more issues than his longer installment in the Apprentice Series.
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Kelly-marie
4,0 su 5 stelle a good read
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 29 ottobre 2013
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This books is very well written and older children/young adult will enjoy this if they like scifi books. I liked the main character Edwin and liked that the author told us the history about his dad and how the story all started. a very good read. would recommend this for anyone who wants to read something abit different for Christmas time. I'm not usually into scifi but did enjoy this book.
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