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Dan doesn’t believe Shelly’s story about being
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Zot, to earthling music and fashion. Now Dan and E
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Shelly need to convince their teacher of the visitor
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I looked up and came face to face with an alien. L
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He was about my size with big, flat ears, very round eyes,
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ISBN-13: 978-1-59889-090-7
ISBN-10: 1-59889-090-5
REINFORCED LIBRARY BINDING
STONE ARCH Science Fiction
by Jonny Zucker
illustrated by Paul Savage
Librarian Reviewer
Joanne Bongaarts
Educational Consultant
MS in Library Media Education, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Teacher and Media Specialist with Edina Public Schools, MN, 1993–2000
Reading Consultant
Elizabeth Stedem
Educator/Consultant, Colorado Springs, CO
MA in Elementary Education, University of Denver, CO
First published in the United States in 2007
by Stone Arch Books,
151 Good Counsel Drive, P.O. Box 669,
Mankato, Minnesota 56002.
www.stonearchbooks.com
Originally published in Great Britain in 2002
by Badger Publishing Ltd.
Original work copyright © 2002 Badger Publishing Ltd
Text copyright © 2002 Jonny Zucker
The right of Jonny Zucker to be identified as the author
of this work has been asserted by him in accordance
with the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced
in whole or in part, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any
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or otherwise, without written permission of the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Zucker, Jonny.
[Abducted by an Alien]
Alien Abduction / by Jonny Zucker; illustrated by Paul Savage.
p. cm. — (Keystone Books.)
Originally published as: Abducted by an Alien.
Summary: When Shelley tells the class that she was abducted by an
alien, Dan does not believe her until the same alien abducts him.
ISBN-13: 978-1-59889-090-7 (hardcover)
ISBN-10: 1-59889-090-5 (hardcover)
ISBN-13: 978-1-59889-243-7 (paperback)
ISBN-10: 1-59889-243-6 (paperback)
[1. Extraterrestrial beings—Fiction. 2. Schools—Fiction.] I. Savage,
Paul, 1971–, ill. II. Title.
PZ7.Z77925Al 2007
[Fic]—dc22 2006004054
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Printed in the United States of America
Ta ble of Contents
Chapter 1
Shelly’s Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Chapter 2
Up and Away . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Chapter 3
The Spaceship. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Chapter 4
New Shoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Chapter 5
Big Trouble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Chapter 6
Serves Him Right. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Shelly s Story
When Shelly told our teacher, Mr.
Tann, that she’d been abducted by
aliens, he laughed.
He said, “Now, now, Shelly,” and
“I don’t think so,” and “It must have
been a dream.”
Shelly wouldn’t take that for
an answer.
“It was on my way home, yesterday
after school,” she told him.
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“I was walking through the mall
parking lot when there was a big flash
of light. Suddenly, I was in the air
being sucked into this alien spaceship.
I bumped my head when I got inside.”
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“What did they look like?” asked
Mr. Tann. “Were they green? Did they
each have three heads?”
“There was only one of them,”
Shelly told him. “He said his name
was Zot.”
“Well, what did you talk to Zot
about?” Mr. Tann asked her. He tried to
hide his smile.
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“I told him all about my cat, Sam,”
said Shelly.
“Zot said he wanted to learn how
to dance, so I showed him a few steps.
Then I was dropped back into the
parking lot and I bumped my head
again on the way out of the ship,”
said Shelly.
At the end of the story, Mr. Tann
walked away, smiling to himself, but
I stayed and talked with Shelly. The
more she told me about the alien
spaceship, the more it sounded real.
But wait a minute! Aliens?
Spaceships? That was all stuff from
TV and not real life. “I want to believe
you, Shelly,” I said, “but it just sounds
like you made it up.”
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Shelly made a face at me.
“Okay, Dan,” she said, “Let’s go
home through the mall parking lot
today and see what happens.”
“I can’t today,” I lied. To tell the
truth I was a little scared.
“All right then,” said Shelly. She
grinned. “Tomorrow.”
“Okay,” I said, trying not to
show the fear in my eyes, “we’ll do
it tomorrow.”
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Up and Away
The next day in school I kept
thinking about the alien spaceship.
Shelly must have made up the story,
but what if it was true?
Mr. Tann was asking me something,
but I was looking out of the window up
into the sky.
“Well, Dan,” said Mr. Tann, “what
do you think?”
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