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Small towns are so ordinary. Albany was a small town and it was very ordinary. It was after World War II had ended and before people knew where Vietnam was located. It was summer. Miss Sandra Reed (Sandy) had just graduated from Grade School in June and was looking forward to meeting all the kids her age in town when she started Junior High School in the Fall. She was also just beginning the struggle with puberty. In other words, she and the other kids her age in the neighborhood did not have a care in world. They didn’t realize that their world was about to be turned completely upside down. You see, Albany had just been selected by a group of aliens as their initial base of operations. But they had not planned for one very brilliant, very tenacious and very persistent teenager. Sandy suddenly found herself in the middle of a battle between aliens on one side, the police on the other and her father in the middle..

Small towns are so ordinary. Albany was a small town and it was very ordinary. It was after World War II had ended and before people knew where Vietnam was located. It was summer. Miss Sandra Reed (Sandy) had just graduated from Grade School in June and was looking forward to meeting all the kids her age in town when she started Junior High School in the Fall. She was also just beginning the struggle with puberty. In other words, she and the other kids her age in the neighborhood did not have a care in world. They didn’t realize that their world was about to be turned completely upside down. You see, Albany had just been selected by a group of aliens as their initial base of operations. But they had not planned for one very brilliant, very tenacious and very persistent teenager. Sandy suddenly found herself in the middle of a battle between aliens on one side, the police on the other and her father in the middle.