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    James and the Alien Experiment
    James and the Alien Experiment
    James and the Alien Experiment
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    James and the Alien Experiment

    By Sally Prue

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    An engaging, well-written, humorous story about a perennially popular subject. James and the Alien Experiment is a comedy about a boy who is kidnapped by aliens. They're quite well-meaning aliens though, who want to improve his rather useless human body - which proves not to be entirely a bad thing (just mostly a bad thing). Ross is given super-strength, super-brains and super-speed and in the end he succeeds in sorting out his truly loathsome form teacher.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateDec 5, 2011
    ISBN9781408153437
    James and the Alien Experiment
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    Sally Prue

    Sally Prue isn't sure where she was born, but from the time she was adopted as a baby she was brought up in Hertfordshire, where she still lives. When her daughters were small, Sally taught recorder and piano whilst also writing children's fiction, and is the winner of the Branford Boase Award and the Smarties Prize Silver Award for her bestselling novel Cold Tom. Sally has a set of Northumbrian bagpipes that she doesn't play very often, which is probably a good thing!

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      Book preview

      James and the Alien Experiment - Sally Prue

      Sally Prue

      James and the Alien Experiment

      Illustrated by Steve May

      CONTENTS

      Cover

      Title Page

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      Chapter Nine

      Chapter Ten

      Chapter Eleven

      About the Author

      Imprint

      Chapter One

      One afternoon, James Hunter was kidnapped by aliens.

      He was just sitting quietly in his living room when the television started making shpitch! shpitch! noises, and then some writing appeared on the screen:

      YOU ARE ABOUT TO BE KIDNAPPED BY ALIENS

      it said.

      PLEASE DO NOT ADJUST YOUR SET

      The screen had gone a shining, swirly green, like washing-up liquid. And then the swirls came together, until it looked as if a bony hand was reaching out of the set.

      Another trailer, thought James.

      Boring.

      It did look real, though. It was a really good special effect: but if the programme was any good, if it was really scary, then it would be on after bedtime and he wouldn’t be allowed to watch it.

      Some more writing came up on the screen:

      WE APOLOGISE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE

      it said.

      And then, the bony hand zoomed right out of the screen and grabbed him.

      James couldn’t believe it: a massive green thumb and forefinger had clamped themselves round his waist. And as he stared down, frozen in horror, it lifted him out of his chair.

      ‘Oi!’ he said. ‘What do you think you’re doing? Let me go! Let me — oof!’

      James put up his arm to protect his head from the glass of the television screen, but it seemed to have vanished. He caught a glimpse of a thicket of multicoloured wires as he was pulled right into the television. He struggled like mad, but the bony hand was as hard as rock and he couldn’t get away.

      James was going ever so fast, though he had no idea where he was going. He was going so fast that at first everything was blurry, but after a few seconds he saw squares of blue and grey, and then, horribly far below him, a green rectangle. That was the football stadium, right on the other side of town.

      Then something wet hit him right in the face. He spluttered, and wiped his eyes, and saw that there was a cloud underneath him, shining like a gilded cauliflower.

      I’m being kidnapped by aliens, he thought; but he was too amazed to take it in properly.

      There was something in the sky in front of him, now. It was a building — perhaps a spaceship — and it was glowing like the flames of a gas cooker.

      I’m being kidnapped by aliens, he thought, again. And this time he believed it. He closed his eyes, and opened his mouth, and he screamed.

      James was lying on something cold, and all around him were the tinking and purring sounds of machinery.

      ‘Yuk,’ said a voice, horribly close. ‘It’s revolting.’

      James kept his eyes tight shut and hoped very hard that he was dreaming.

      ‘Looks dead to me,’ said another, deeper voice.

      I’m asleep, thought James, gritting his teeth with the effort of believing it. I’m asleep. I’m — OW!

      He opened his eyes hastily because something was poking him. There was a thing right in front of him. It was all green and slimy, and it had purple eyes and a small wobbly trunk.

      James screamed again.

      ‘Ah,’ said the thing, blinking at him and seeming rather pleased. ‘Good. Not dead, after all. Right, then, let’s get down to

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