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Synopsis
Friendships are the testing ground for life. Not everyone passes.
Sixteen-year-old Buddy Clemson doesn’t have many friends so when he meets a stranger about his own age, he’s willing to overlook the young boy’s outlandish outfit and his strange habit of talking to himself. Little does Buddy know that he’s just met a visitor from the remote planet of Betelle who is in training to become a Galactic Ambassador.
Glitch and his computerized trainer, Qwirk, are stranded on Earth when their spaceship runs out of fuel - just the first unexpected twist in the jinxed training mission. While Qwirk instructs Glitch to consider their time on this “pre-transformed” planet as just another part of his training, it doesn’t take long for Glitch to realize his first assignment may also be his last.
He becomes enmeshed in the drama of Buddy’s life, including a love triangle that could get them both beat up by the local bully, Task Taylor. Glitch’s chance to become a Galactic Ambassador is in jeopardy not to mention his ever seeing his home planet again.
W. Bradford Swift’s love of books began as a young boy when his next-door-neighbor took pity on his mother who he hounded relentlessly to “come out and play.” Mrs. Crabtree, the children librarian at the local library, brought home a pile of books carefully selected to hook a young boy’s imagination. Swift has been caught ever since. He is also the author the Zak Bates Eco-Adventure series that starts with Dominion Over All. (Sample chapter included.)
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About the Author
Inspiration for W. Bradford Swift’s young adult novels grew out of reading such books as Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine, the John Carter of Mars, and the Tom Swift Jr. series. Brad’s love of books began as a young boy when his next-door-neighbor took pity on his mother who he hounded relentlessly to “come out and play.” Mrs. Crabtree, the children librarian at the local library, helped in the only way she knew. She brought home a pile of books carefully selected to hook a young boy’s imagination. The books laid on the nightstand for several days until curiosity finally won out. Opening the first book sprung a trap that Swift has been caught in it ever since.
Several years later he vowed to give back to the many authors who helped his mother mostly retain her sanity and kept him out of jail by writing “visionary fiction”—stories that engage and entertain while also inspiring and enlightening readers to new possibilities for their lives. He is also the author the Zak Bates Eco-Adventure series that starts with Dominion Over All. His visionary nonfiction includes Life On Purpose: Six Passages to an Inspired Life, an award winning finalist in the Self-Help: Motivational division of the Best Books 2007 Awards sponsored by USA News.
He and his wife are the co-founders of Life On Purpose Institute, Inc. They live in the “Paradise Found” of the North Carolina mountains with their daughter and a menagerie of pets. You can learn more about his fiction and nonfiction at www.wbradfordswift.com .
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- PublisherPorpoise Publishing
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1930328419
- ISBN 13 9781930328419
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages150
- EditorHolt Cathy
- IllustratorHabbick Victor
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