Books with author Adam Rex

It all starts with a school essay. When twelve-year-old Gratuity (“Tip”) Tucci is assigned to write five pages on “The True Meaning of Smekday” for the National Time Capsule contest, she’s not sure where to begin. When her mom started telling everyone about the messages aliens were sending through a mole on the back of her neck? Maybe on Christmas Eve, when huge, bizarre spaceships descended on the Earth and the aliens – called Boov – abducted her mother? Or when the Boov declared Earth a colony, renamed it “Smekland” (in honor of glorious Captain Smek), and forced all Americans to relocate to Florida via rocketpod? In any case, Gratuity’s story is much, much bigger than the assignment. It involves her unlikely friendship with a renegade Boov mechanic named J.Lo.; a futile journey south to find Gratuity’s mother at the Happy Mouse Kingdom; a cross-country road trip in a hovercar called Slushious; and an outrageous plan to save the Earth from yet another alien invasion. Fully illustrated with “photos,” drawings, newspaper clippings, and comics sequences, this is a hilarious, perceptive, genre-bending novel by a remarkable new talent.

A child, a visit to the zoo, animals--sounds like good, simple all-American fun. But there’s something different about this zoo. These animals want things. Unusual things. What will they do with them? Laughs, jokes, and surprises abound in this graphic picture book about a feisty, all-too-helpful little girl and her role in aiding and abetting zoo-animal shenanigans. Adam Rex once again reveals the hilarious hidden life of creatures we thought we knew well. (09/10/2007)

With its bright and textured images, this charming picture book invites kids to listen, look, touch…and even find an army of armadillos cleverly hidden throughout. “Go play with your cousins, Arlo!” That’s what Arlo the armadillo hears his mom say, and that’s exactly what he’s trying to do. But just when he thinks he’s found them, it turns out that he’s really discovered something else. Those scaly heads peeping out of the water? Alligators! Those pointy ears emerging from behind a pile of earth? They belong to a bunny, digging a hole.Where could his cousins—armadillos from head to toe, just like Arlo—be? Sharp-eyed children will see!

The third book in this series finds Milly and Adam mountaineering. Naughty Milly spots a rabbit and chases it to the edge of a cliff. The rabbit veers off, but Milly tumbles over the side. Lost and frightened, she is befriended by a vixen and her mate. Milly repays their kindness by helping them to escape the hunt, but is herself caught and locked up in the hunt kennels. On her escape she meets up with Growler, who shows her how to get back home to Adam.

Abandoned in a cardboard box, found by 10 year old Adam, who raises the lid and sees inside a poor little puppy looking beseechingly up into his eyes. He lets her out and cuddles her in his arms. The poor little puppy licks his face affectionately. Adopted and named Milly by Adam. This is the first in a series of three tales about her adventures as told by Milly.Worry as Milly encounters a “River Monster” as she learns to swim.Thrill as she fetches help for Adam after he is knocked out and she gets injured by a car.Laugh as they recuperate together.Join Milly at the seaside where she helps her friend Sheba escape from the sea.How will Milly find her way home after getting lost in the mountains? Her friendship with two foxes who shelter her and show her the way to get home and back to Adam.Playing in the snow at Milly’s first Christmas and many more adventures.

Brothers from different mothers, bromancing history to save us from Trump.These are the continuing adventures of Barack Obama and Joe Biden, time traveling superheroes in search of a brighter future for America.Moments after the inauguration of our 45th President, best friends Barack Obama and Joe Biden were escorted to a secret lab run by the world s greatest scientists. They were asked to take off all their clothes and hold very still in a fetal position until they felt a painful tingling sensation. Then they vanished. They would awake to find themselves apart, and inside their younger bodies driven to find each other and change history for the better. Their faithful guide on this journey is Samuel L. Jackson, a brilliant actor from the present who appears in the form of an augmented reality that only they can see and hear. And thus, they find themselves leaping through time, striving to right injustice wherever they find it, looking for a world which they can proudly call home.This audiobook is a love letter to cheesy science fiction and the two men who can still be counted on to inspire us an adventure that will melt your snowflake brain and give you hope for humanity at the same time.