This book starts out with a boy named Ethan dieing and everybody said it was
appendicitis however later Jason and some others realized it wasn’t. Jason
didn’t like his life because he thought it was too boring and he thought his
parents were too nice because they never punished him too badly. Also at
Ethan’s wedding, Jason wondered why Ethan’s parents didn’t cry but his dad
said it was shock however later Jason learned Ethan hadn’t died at all. At a
Little League game in Billington, Jason got in a fight with a boy because that
boy was insulting the pitcher who was the girl that Jason liked. He got badly
beat up and he went to the restroom to take care of the bruises that he had
gotten. Then his school janitor, Mr. Grant, walked inside the restroom and gave
Jason a glove that shot out BBs however Jason learned that the glove shot BBs by
himself. He also told him to meet by a barn in a place called Old Town to learn
what to do with it. The next day, Paula, the pitcher that Jason liked, went to
Jason’s house and told him he ruined her no-hitter yesterday. She was turning
to leave but Jason wanted her to stay there so he decided to show her the glove
Grant had given him even though Grant said not to show anyone the glove. He went
to the back of his backyard and showed it to her. Then they went to Old Town
because they got carried away in a “game” when Paula took the glove because
she wanted to know where Jason had gotten the glove. They went into Old Town and
they found many sightings that were “weird” such as a picture of a person
that looked exactly like Billy Chambers who was a kid that went to their school
and they saw a message carved into a wall that said, “God Help Us”. At
school the next day, Jason said he had to get his monthly shots so he couldn’t
help Paula search around Old Town. Jason and everybody else who did receive them
thought they were for health however they learned later that they were to keep
their natural bodies and not their alien bodies. The next day was the day that
Jason was supposed to meet to learn about the glove however Paula wanted him to
help search for the truth about Old Town however he said he had a meeting and
Wesley saved him by saying it was a Boy Scout meeting because Wesley also had to
meet there. Wesley had received his glove 2 months before and he along with many
others was sent to go there. Jason realized that these were all people who had
parents that were their parents’ closest friends. At home, his parents said
they were moving and they were not going to stay in Billington. Jason wanted to
know why and he pulled out the glove that he got from Grant. His dad furiously
wondered where he had gotten that and he got very mad. He finally went out and
went to a storm cellar in Old Town that was actually a space ship. There,
Jason’s dad told him everything: about how he was an alien and how they got to
Earth and about them stealing the faces of the human civilians that previously
lived there before they were killed. At school the kids talked about them being
alien because most of their parents had told them. Also Jason learned that the
monthly shots were turning into weekly shots. Also the kids learned that Ethan
really hadn’t died, he was just in alien form so he couldn’t come to school.
Also they turned the meetings for the aliens into everyday since it was summer
and the people begin thinking they were better than everyone. A few days later
people rushed to Jason’s house because they were becoming the aliens in the
form that they actually were. They wanted to know what was happening so they
went to Grant’s house. Grant said it was test to see if Jason could unite all
of them and he showed Jason what Ethan looked like because he thought Jason
would make a good leader. The next important thing was that the people who were
aliens had moved to Old Town to live and they could get a new weapon that burned
holes in things. Also Jason was told by Ethan that he needed to dump Paula so
Jason tried to. He went to her house and said that he needed to talk to her
however she started talking about how she didn’t think Ethan was really dead
and she dared Jason to dig up his grave. However she tricked him and she sort of
dumped him because he had been lying to her. The next thing that happened was
Jason started using the old medicine so he would stop growing into an alien.
Also they learned the plan that the aliens would follow to invade the world.
Jason didn’t like it but he in fact didn’t like anything about being alien.
When Mr. Grant came in the room that they were discussing, the plan, he told
Jason to take off his shirt and then he told him to go to Doc Fuller because his
treatment wasn’t going well because he had less hair than everyone else. When
Jason was at Doc Fullers’ lab he ran from it because he didn’t want to be an
alien and the Transitionals ( the other kids that were becoming aliens) chased
him until he led all but one away. Wesley was the only one who knew where he was
and he sold out on his best friend by telling everyone else where Jason was.
Finally he ran down the road to the only place he knew was safe and that was Ms.
Pohl’s house because Jason had gotten his body from the man named J.J. Pohl.
The next morning, Ferrari and Paula came to Ms. Pohl’s house and Ferrari said
they needed help getting Wesley out of the space ship because he had stayed down
there shooting anyone who went to try to get him out. Jason thought he could
take advantage of this moment so he went and he talked to Wesley but he
couldn’t help and he saw that Ethan had died. Wesley had turned on the launch
sequence and the ship would launch any minute so Jason hit Wesley over the head
and dragged him out of the ship. Grant went inside to try and stop the ship
however it didn’t work and the plane was seen by everyone in Billington and
reporters came from everywhere . After the plane shot off, Billy Chambers was
about to kill Jason with his new weapon however Paula stopped him. However,
Jason was still having pains and he didn’t know what they were. When he woke
up, he was at a Holiday Inn and his parents were there along with Paula and they
told him what had happened. They went to the State Capitol and talked to the
governor about how Jason was an alien and the story ended by saying basically
that Jason wanted to be human more than anything.