The Goosebumps Series 2000 book where a kid finds himself on an alien planet with no memory.
One morning, Jacob Miller awakens at a new school to begin sixth grade, only to find that things are weird — he doesn't recognize anyone, he can't read the language, and the maps look nothing like Earth. And weirdest of all, the other students eat through their armpits.
Soon, he discovers he, his father and sister have somehow ended up on another planet, where they've been brought for a sinister purpose.
This book provides examples of:
- Bizarre Alien Biology: The beings on the planet eat through their armpits.
- Covers Always Lie: The cover depicts a man flying to Earth in a ship. This is likely meant to be Crazy Phil from the book but he is not hostile like the cover suggests, and the kids are there with him.
- Decoy Antagonist: The aliens are initially hostile towards Jacob and his family, but only because they think they're working for the Splatters - which they are, albeit unwillingly. Later in the book, they're shown to be friendly and willing to help the Millers try and return to Earth.
- Here We Go Again!: They escape the planet but land on a planet of lizard people.
- Human Aliens: This book has a whole planet run by them. The only biological sign that they're not humans are the holes underneath their arms which they use to ingest food.
- Insistent Terminology: Jacob and his family are referred to as "Earth geeks" throughout the book. It's later explained that the aliens genuinely thought humans were called "geeks."
- Missing Mom: Despite mentioning that "Mom and Dad" say I'm easygoing, there doesn't seem to be a mom in the picture. When asked if they have a mom, Mr. Miller says he doesn't know, as they have little memory about it.
- Mythology Gag: One of the numbers in this alien language is trel.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The protagonist is offered the opportunity to return to earth in a spaceship invented by someone known as "Crazy Ol' Phil." This ends about as well as you would expect.
- Present Tense Narrative: The book is written this way, the only book in the franchise to do so outside of Give Yourself Goosebumps.
- Stranger in a Strange School: A boy's first day of school becomes increasingly disturbing as his teachers write their lessons in a language he doesn't recognize, he has no idea how to use the school's computers, and during lunch he finds out his classmates are eating their food through holes in their armpits. The boy learns he's really on another planet, and so are his sister and their dad.
- Spoiler Cover: The American cover gives away the Crazy Phil character but the French cover takes it up a notch by depicting the twist ending where they land on a planet of lizard people.
- Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb: The Splatters, a race of insect-like aliens, plant a bomb on Mr. Miller's watch. Although in this case they make him think it's a good thing as they paint the other people on the planet as their enemies, when in reality the Splatters are the evil ones.
- Title Drop: At one point they watch a news broadcast by the aliens declaring that Earth geeks must go!.
- Weaksauce Weakness: The Splatters are defeated by high pitched noises.
