Ruby Sisson Library

"Twelve-year-old Gratuity "Tip" Tucci is assigned to write five pages on "The true meaning of Smekday" for the National Time Capsule contest, and she's not sure where to beging: 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 to Earth and the aliens - called the Boov - abducted her mother? Or when the Boov declared Earth...

Artemisia (Sia) Martinez's mother was deported to Mexico by ICE and disappeared in the Sonoran Desert trying to make it back to her American family; Sia believes that she was as-good-as murdered by ICE and the sheriff in their small Arizona town on the edge of the national park, and wants revenge against him and his son, Jeremy--but her search for the truth will uncover many more secrets than she counted on.

"Evie Shao and her sister, Kass, aren’t on speaking terms. Fifteen years ago on a family camping trip, their father and brother vanished. Their dad turned up days later, dehydrated and confused—and convinced he'd been abducted by aliens. Their brother, Jakob, remained missing. The women dealt with it very differently. Kass, suspecting her college-dropout twin simply ran off, became the rock of the family. Evie traded academics to pursue alien...

After something strange happens during a camping trip, twelve-year-old alien-obsessed Simon suspects he has been abducted, but was it real or just his overactive imagination?

Somebody is taking people and making it look like they walked out on their own. As police detective Flynn Carroll's case files grow, his work comes to the attention of Special Agent Diana Glass, a member of the most secret police unit on the planet. This police force seeks the most brilliant and lethal criminals who have ever walked free--thieves and murderers from another world.--From publisher's description.

Ella does not like clowns, and Tia's backyard birthday party has way too many of them, and these clowns and their bouncy castle seem extra creepy; so Ella hides and she and Tia watch as the birthday castle, crammed with children and adults, turns into a rocket ship and takes off--leaving Ella wondering just how much Tia knew about this alien abduction.

"Arnie is shocked when he hears his neighbor Loretta Schmoretta tell news reporters that she was the victim of an alien abduction. And not just any aliens--alien doughnuts from outer spastry. Arnie thinks this is a ridiculous story, that is, until he gets abducted. Arnie must think fast in order to rescue his fellow doughnuts and the townspeople from the alien invaders"--

Charlie Dickens--not "Charles" but Charlie, even on his birth certificate--wants to escape the bullies who make fun of him for his name, and longs to meet the aliens who took his mother, whom his mother promised would come back for him some day. Then, Charlie meets the self-assured Seth, who becomes his first real friend, who may make him want to stay on Earth after all. Then, the aliens seem to show up for real.

Abducted by aliens periodically throughout his youth, Henry Denton is informed by his erstwhile captors that they will end the world in 144 days unless he stops them by deciding that humanity is worth saving.