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Life in Outer Space

by Melissa Keil
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A YA romantic comedy about a movie geek & the dream girl he refuses to fall in love with. Sam Kinnison is a geek, and he's totally fine with that. He has his horror movies, his nerdy friends, World of Warcraft – and until Princess Leia turns up in his bedroom,worry about girls he won't. Then Camilla Carter arrives on the scene. She's beautiful, friendly and completely irrelevant to his plan. Sam is determined to ignore her, except that Camilla has a plan of her own – and he seems to be a part of it! Sam believes that everything he needs to know he can learn from the movies. But perhaps he's been watchingthe wrong ones.Life in Outer Space is Melissa Keil's brilliantly sweet and funny YA debut. It's also the first book to be signed up through the Ampersand Project, Hardie Grant Egmont's initiative for emerging YA writers.

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  • Release date

    February 1, 2013

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    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781742739588

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781742739588
      • File size: 409 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 740
    • Text Difficulty: 3-4

  • Reviews

    • Books+Publishing

      December 13, 2012

      Sam Kinnison isn’t having the ideal high school experience. While he has good friends and gets good marks, he is also on the receiving end of many a practical joke. A horror film fanatic and World of Warcraft player, he is pretty happy with his geekdom. When Camilla Carter arrives at school—beautiful, cool and also a World of Warcraft player—Sam finds his life changing. Camilla seems to be possessed with strange powers that make the jocks more accepting of Sam and his nerdy friends. Unfortunately for both him and Camilla, Sam is a bit slow on the uptake when it comes to girls. It takes him a ludicrously long time to realise that he is totally in love with Camilla and even longer to figure out she might reciprocate his feelings. I couldn’t help but be reminded of John Green while reading Life in Outer Space with its nerdy boys, dream girl and lots of introspection. It was a thoroughly enjoyable read and I would give it to both teenage girls and boys who are looking for books with real-life drama. There is a bit of mild swearing but nothing too intense. Melissa Keil’s debut novel was the first book signed up to Hardie Grant Egmont’s Ampersand Project, an initiative to publish new YA books from unpublished writers. 

      Amelia Vahtrick is the children’s book buyer at Better Read Than Dead is Newtown

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  • OverDrive Read
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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:740
  • Text Difficulty:3-4

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