The book that inspired HOME, now a major motion picture!<div></div><div></div><div>It all starts with a school essay. <br><br>When twelve-year-old Gratuity (&quot;Tip&quot;) Tucci is assigned to write five pages on &quot;The True Meaning of Smekday&quot; for the National Time Capsule contest, she's not sure where to begin. When her mom started telling everyone about the messages aliens were sending through a mole on the back of her neck? Maybe on Christmas Eve, when huge, bizarre spaceships descended on the Earth and the aliens-called Boov-abducted her mother? Or when the Boov declared Earth a colony, renamed it &quot;Smekland&quot; (in honor of glorious Captain Smek), and forced all Americans to relocate to Florida via rocketpod? <br><br>In any case, Gratuity's story is much, much bigger than the assignment. It involves her unlikely friendship with a renegade Boov mechanic named J.Lo.; a futile journey south to find Gratuity's mother at the Happy Mouse Kingdom; a cross-country road trip in a hovercar called Slushious; and an outrageous plan to save the Earth from yet another alien invasion.</div><div><br>Fully illustrated with &quot;photos,&quot; drawings, newspaper clippings, and comics sequences, this is a hilarious, perceptive, genre-bending novel from best-selling author Adam Rex.</div><div></div>