- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Puffin Canada; 1 edition (Jan 30 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 014305256X
- ISBN-13: 978-0143052562
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #372,429 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
Since his father left home, Nathan Blue has lived in a world of his own imagination. Inspired by an old TV show, he spends his time meeting Plutonians, hunting babylions and trying to deal with the humanoids at the Boredom Academy. But his home life becomes increasingly difficult when his worried mother demands an end to "this imagination business,"and his new friend, Sheron, starts to wonder if Nathan even really understands the difference between his fantasy world and real life.
Complex, illusory, real and funny, this is the story of an earthbound but all-too-human Plutonian—Nathan Blue.
About the Author
Matt Beam, the young author of a children’s novel Getting to First Base with Donalda Chase, is a freelance journalist who lives in Toronto.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Inventive & gritty,
By John Burns "Author of Runnerland, a novel for... (Vancouver, BC Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Earth to Nathan Blue (Paperback)
"Luza and I are looking for his fathership. He left him a year ago. He disappeared to a place called Costa Oeste, which is millions of kiloarms away. We're thinking you might know a way to get there turboblast." That's Nathan Blue, resident of Plutonia, talking. He's a lot more interesting, he feels, than Nathan Blue, ordinary kid with a father who won't grow up or even phone (strangely similar to his invisible best friend Luza's dad). Stressed and deeply in denial about his deadbeat dad's inability to parent, Nathan retreats further and further into the world of his imagination, even as he befriends a tramp who suggests that riding the rails will change both their fortunes. Nathan's inventive language is fun, and his battles with his mother and teachers are vivid and true. The grittier aspects - the absent father, the prospect of running away with a homeless alcoholic - may turn off more sensitive readers.
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