***Now appearing at the LHS Library***

Dec 5, 2011

Each week I will highlight one of the new books that we have received this year.
These books are available for checkout from our library.

This week’s book is titled:
How I Stole Johnny Depp’s Alien Girlfriend
by Gary Ghislain

Fourteen-year-old David, the son of a famous French psychologist, falls in love with Zelda, a new patient who believes she is from outer space, and soon they are tearing through Paris in search of her chosen one, Johnny Depp, so that she can take him to her home planet, Vahalal.

Reviewed at: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9460435-how-i-stole-johnny-depp-s-alien-girlfriend

Jackie rated it 5 stars:

How I Stole Johnny Depp’s Alien Girlfriend is one of the most outrageous, laugh-out-loud books I’ve read in a long, LONG time. Think Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy meets The True Meaning of Smekday…two of my very favorite books, by the way. When David’s father, a famous therapist, is ‘fixing’ Zelda, all sorts of mayhem and mischief starts. Zelda is a wacky, one-track-minded, brutish woman, who is on Earth (from her planet Vahalal) to find her ‘chosen one’ and mate. Of course, there are no men on Vahalal, since they are dumb, worthless, smelly, and crude. Clearly, Zelda thinks, as does all of Vahalal, that men are only good for one thing.

When Zelda is on a murderous trek to find Johnny Depp (Zelda’s chosen one) and transfer her green key tattoo to him (in order to re-enter Vahalal), David is smitten and enlists help from his step-sister, Malou. Together, the three of them, escape authority figures, encounter some maverick Vahalalian rebels called Valks, and generally cause an uproar throughout France with side-splitting humorous escapades that will have the reader wondering just how far these alien women will go.

This is one of the best books I’ve read this year! Kudos to Gary Ghislain, on his debut YA novel. I hope, hope, hope he is planning to write more.