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New York Times bestselling author Carrie Jones introduces sassy alien-hunting cheerleader Mana in Flying, the launch of a sparkling new YA Science Fiction series.People have always treated seventeen-year-old Mana as someone in need of protection. She's used to being coddled, being an only child, but it's hard to imagine anything could ever happen in her small-town, normal life. As her mother's babying gets more stifling than ever, she's looking forward to cheering at the big game and getting out of the house for a while.But that night, Mana's life goes haywire.First, the hot guy she's been crushing on at school randomly flips out and starts spitting acid during the game. Then they get into a knockdown, drag-out fight in the locker room, during which Mana finds herself leaping around like a kangaroo on steroids. As a flyer on the cheerleading squad, she's always been a good jumper, but this is a bit much. By the time she gets home and finds her house trashed and an alien in the garage, Mana starts to wonder if her mother had her reasons for being overprotective.It turns out, Mana's frumpy, timid mom is actually an alien hunter, and now she's missing--taking a piece of technology with her that everyone wants their hands on, both human and alien. Now her supposed partner, a guy that Mana has never met or heard of (and who seems way too young and way too arrogant to be hunting aliens) , has shown up, ordering Mana to come with him. Now, on her own for the first time, Mana will have to find a way to save her mother--and maybe the world--and hope she's up to the challenge.
About the Author
Carrie Jones is a volunteer firefighter, New York Times and internationally-bestselling writer, and occasional human. She graduated from Vermont College's MFA program for writing. She has edited newspapers and poetry journals and has recently won multiple awards from the Maine Press Association and also been awarded the Martin Dibner Fellowship as well as a Maine Literary Award.She is also part of Rotary International, the motto of which is service above self. Her very first book was in fourth grade. It was a Star Trek fan fiction where a girl named Cassie (sort of close to Carrie) saved the universe by dying heroically. Kirk, Spock, Sulu, Checkov, Bones, and pretty much every character was madly in love with her and mourned her death. Luckily, that 434 paged missive in multiple notebooks is hidden away now. Her first published book, TIPS ON HAVING A GAY (EX) BOYFRIEND appeared May 2007. Her second novel, LOVE (AND OTHER USES FOR DUCT TAPE) came out March 2008. Another book, GIRL, HERO was released after August 2008. TIPS won the Maine Literary Award and the Independent Booksellers Award. The New York Times and internationally best selling, NEED, an urban fantasy/romance appeared December 2008 and has been named a VOYA Best Books of 2008 and was a finalist for a bunch of other awards. It's about human sized pixies, the apocalypse, and being awesome. The follow-up books in the series include CAPTIVATE, ENTICE and ENDURE. She cowrote AFTER OBSESSION, which is creepy with Steven Wedel and I also wrote a nonfiction picture book called SARAH EMMA EDMONDS, about a cross dressing Civil War spy and hero. Her other picture book biography focused on Moe Berg is called THE SPY WHO PLAYED BASEBALL. She co-edited DEAR BULLY, where all this young adult authors volunteered to tell their own true stories about bullying and was a contributor to DEAR TEEN ME, which is an awesome anthology and also THINGS I HAVEN'T SAID. In 2015, she released the first book of her middle grade series, TIME STOPPERS, which she began writing while sleeping in a car, scribbling on pieces of paper, notepads, and her laptop. She wrote it for her daughter, Emily. It is the first of a trilogy. It's been compared to Harry Potter and Percy Jackson books. Also in 2015, she release FLYING, the first in a science fiction series about a cheerleader who learns her mom is an alien bounty hunter. It's a bit like Men in Black crossed with Buffy the Vampire Slayer crossed with Doctor Who. Another horror book with Steven Wedel IN THE WOODS was a Publisher's Weekly Buzz Book in 2019.That's boring though, isn't it? Here, let's try the biography this way.Carrie Jones likes Skinny Cow fudgsicles and potatoes. She does not know how to spell fudgsicles. This has not prevented her from writing books. She lives with her cute family in Maine, but she grew up in Bedford, NH where she once had a seance with cool uber-comedian Sarah Silverman.The Meyers brothers are from
