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Language English Originally published 1997 ISBN 9780316789073 | 3.7/5 Goodreads Media type Print | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Original title The Dark Side of Nowhere Working title The Dark Side of Nowhere Similar Neal Shusterman books, Other books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Dark Side of Nowhere is a children's book written by Neal Shusterman and published by Little Brown and Company in 1997. This 256 page science fiction book is for readers aged 12 and up and is about a boy who is tired of being normal, living in a normal town and how all of that changes quite suddenly.
Contents
The dark side of nowhere
Plot
The boy in the book—Jason Miller—is having a bad day. It's not that he doesn't feel like himself, he actually isn't himself. Everything has changed. His friend Ethan dies. Jason really isn't himself all of a sudden. So he starts wondering who he is (he just doesn't know). And to make matters worse, it's not just him; it seems that everyone in town is acting weird, including his friends and family. He then undergoes a transition, which shows him his little boring town has a dark side