The True Meaning of Smekday

The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex, 423 pages

This is a YA book that I'd been meaning to pick up for quite some time. I've got to say, I quite enjoyed it. The True Meaning of Smekday is the story of Gratuity Tucci (her friends call her Tip), who writes the book as an essay about the Christmas Smekday alien invasion. When the humans are rounded up and sent to a "human reservation" in Florida, Gratuity decides to drive her mom's beat-up car down there by herself, despite the fact that she's only 11 and her mom's been abducted by aliens. Along the way, she meets up with an alien named J.Lo, spends some time in the bowels of Happy Mouse Kingdom (wonder what that's supposed to be... hmm...) and ends up driving a hovercar west to Arizona to track down her mom.

This book is silly and fun, but also has some great thought-provoking passages. Fantastic book.