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Summary: What if you weren't who you thought you were?
Review: Jason is a young teen living in a small town. He describes his life, parents, friends, school, everything as "nice". And there lies the problem. It is terribly dull. Jason is somewhat of a troublemaker, but things remain dull. Then a close friend dies of appendicitis and the school janitor gives Jason a strange metal glove.Now things are not dull anymore. Jason and all of the members of his church seem to have a shadowed background. A twenty-five year old photo looks just like one of his friends. Why is everyone tied to an unreported epidemic that hit the town years ago? Soon Jason learns the truth of who he, and his friends, really are. He must deal with the knowledge and the changes it brings. Eventually he must decide where his true loyalties really lie. A very unusual coming-of-age story with wonderful science fiction twists. The whole story does not end as Jason is still alive at the end, but the story of how Jason deals with his new life reaches a very satisfying conclusion.
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Summary: This book is VERY good and I give it ****+!
Review: Jason is suprised to find out that a girl at his school isn't talking her monthly shots which everyone else does! When he finds out why, his life becomes VERY different. I LOVED how Neal could write so well from a teenager's point of view. Society generaly thinks of aliens as green and yucky and brain sucking but I absolutely LOVED how Neal suggested the ides of beautiful, friendly aliens
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Summary: THE DARK SIDE OF NOWHERE
Review: My favorite saying is 'It was simply
Wasn't possible to explain it was hideous yet it was beautiful. Its thick mane dazzled me with it's vibrate peach color'. The theme of the book is. A boy who lives a lie his parents bestowed on him. He was an alien. His parent's ship crash landed on earth letting out harmful radiation killing people, but before they died his parents took the DNA from the people and put onto theirs they became them. When the truth was found out that he and his friends were aliens! The book made me want to read it again. The book I would say is for kids 8 to adult. I want the book to win the award because it has qualities no book has.
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Summary: Haunting SF adventure
Review: Neal Shusterman is a skilled YA writer, with the ability to blend the surreal and the everyday. One of his better-known books, "Dark Side of Nowhere" is an unusually good kids' SF story, about a group of teenagers who begin to wonder what the strange secrets in their town mean. Billington is incredibly dull in the opinion of young Jason Miller. The only lull in his Norman Rockwell lifestyle is the sudden, violent death of his friend Ethan by appendicitis. But after that, things began to seem strange. The new girl Paula points out that not everyone in the world receives special allergy shots. Jason finds a picture of a classmate -- from the 1970s. A sinister janitor gives Jason and the other kids "training gloves" that shoot BBs like bullets from the fingertips. And then Jason's parents reveal the stranger-than-fiction truth to him: They, and the families they are close to, are all alien beings stranded on Earth. Now the janitor Grant says that alien ships are coming to conquer Earth, and strange changes are taking place in the bodies of the alien-human teens. Jason and his friends must learn more about the terrifying and beautiful alien beings that are their own species, and how to stop Earth from being threatened. It's the dream of every small-town boy who felt that his life is too incredibly dull to be believed, and that "you'll live nice, die nice, and your life will have been a nice waste of time." It may not be every boy's dream to find out he and everyone he knows is an alien, but it's an unusual adventure. Shusterman's writing varies nicely between everyday (burgers, breakfast, baseball, and a father who always calls him "son") and absolutely surreal (such as the scene with a certain transfigured character, a scene where the kids discover their body hair falling off). Jason is a likeable hero, very realistic. At first he mainly seems interested in breaking out of his dull life by being sarcastic and cocky, but when a real crisis arises he is an intelligent and resourceful person. Paula is pretty good as the human girl he has a sneaking liking for, and Grant is creepy and very believably alien. The kids around Jason are also realistic, although they seemed to be falling into line with him a little too unquestioningly. Fans of fantasy and SF will undoubtedly enjoy the haunting SF story "Dark Side of Nowhere," with its intriguing plot and good characterizations. Great read.
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Summary: Imagine the World of Aliens.........
Review: Neal Shusterman made my imagination run wild in this ill-fated novel he produced in "The Dark Side of Nowhere". Throughout the course of the storyline the main character, Jason Miller who is bored with life in Billington and his fellow friends and classmates come across the master plan of extraterrestrials pushed by many of the people from his community. These people maintain the human body by a DNA strand they inject into themselves monthly. Jason though is introduced to his janitor through mere luck and finds out about this glove that is used for shooting BB's. The reading level in this book was definitely around my level or maybe a tad bit below so I would recommend it to pretty much anyone who's looking for a good read and a great plot. I liked how Neal Shusterman put so much details into what the aliens looked like or the humans that were aliens on the inside. He described them so greatly that I could picture them by each word he stated. I also like how he talked about the other kids attitudes on how Jason hung out with his girlfriend, even though he had the right too, but everyone looked up to him because the janitor who proposed the whole thing appointed him leader of the whole group of kids. The plot in this book gave me much interest in the book and made me look at life a lot different. It made me think about aliens and extraterrestrials and if they're really out there in the universe. The book made my imagination flourish and I would really say to read this if you've ever thought about aliens in general. I give this book a 4 out of 5 because of it's in depth quality and great word usage.
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Summary: IT was the perfect book for any teen.
Review: Oh it was really kewl. Espaecially when he starts to turn against the transitionals and knocks out The DR. and there is so much more...but I cant describe it as good as Neal Shusterman could. This book litteraly pulls you in. I almost got in trouble reading it in class. I totally recomend it is worth 3 or 4 dollars. Peace : )
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Summary: Dark Side of Nowhere
Review: The book called Dark Side of Nowhere. This book had a lot of action in it. This book has one great fight scene. This is a good to read if your bored. I recommend this book for teenagers.
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Summary: The book i read
Review: The book I read was called The Darkside of Nowhere and the author is Neil Shusterman. You should read this book because it is a good story and it is educational. It has good understanding. It explains the situations. Overall I would reccommend this book to every kid in the world.
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Summary: Good, but for younger readers
Review: The book is a good one, but I would say it is a little too... two-dimensional for older readers. I would have enjoyed this book more when I was around 10-11, it has character development, a good plot, but not enough delving into what this all means for everyone. I find Jason to be slightly immature for his age also, and Paula seems like her character is designed to be plucky, sarcastic.. all real traits in girls but all together the character seems too 'mary-sueish' that is, she makes people bored of her because she is designed to be what good female characters are supposed to be, all her real faults are actually good thing (ie. stubborness)
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Summary: The Dark Side of Nowhere
Review: The Dark Side of Nowhere is a sci-fi mystery book.It is about a kid named Jason who finds out what he really is.He is part of a race of supernatural beings.His girlfriend Paula starts to become suspicious about the way he is acting.She doesnt know he's an alien.He finds out that alot of his friends are aliens and even his parents. I would reccomend this book to anyone,even if they dont like sci-fi books.It is very interesting and makes you want to keeep reading on until the end.
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