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| The Exchange Student | 
| Author: Kate Gilmore
Publisher: Sandpiper
Category: Book
List Price: $6.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 1183584
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 222
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 4.7 x 0.5
ISBN: 0618689486
EAN: 9780618689484
ASIN: 0618689486
Publication Date: July 24, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Good condition, wear from reading and use. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact and has some creases. The spine has signs of wear and creases. This copy may include "From the library of" labels, stickers or stamps and be an ex-library copy.
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Product Description
Daria is one of Earth's youngest licensed breeders of endangered species, and she has enough to do caring for her menagerie without having to cope with an exchange student from another planet. Besides Fen's color-shifting and endless questions, there is something about the way the lanky alien looks at her animals and his stubborn refusal to talk about the creatures of his own world that makes Daria nervous. Fen, on the other hand, couldn't be happier with his Earth family. Hoping for one pet, he finds himself in a zoo. With a sharp eye for human, alien, and animal ways, Kate Gilmore has written a fascinating tale.
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| Customer Reviews:
 What if you had an alien living with you? March 21, 2002
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
What would you do if you had an exchange student living with you? What if this exchange student was from another planet? Well in this book, Exchange Student, 16-year old Daria has an exchange student live with her. This exchange student is not any normal exchange student, but he is an alien from Chela named Fen. He is about seven feet tall and changes colors with the changes of his emotions. Daria is a breeder of endangered animals and when Fen comes, she finds that he too loves animals.
Kate Gilmore, the author of this book, takes you into the book as she describes the animals, somewhat what the world looks like in about a hundred years or so, and she describes the problems and fun of this alien's visit. She has written this challenging tale with a sharp eye for human, alien, and animal ways.
If you want to learn more about this alien and how the family copes with this new member, you should read this excellent book. I personally didn't want to put the book down. The words may be a little advanced for younger children, but a great challenge and fun for more advanced students.
 The Exchange Student December 7, 2001
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was a good book. I liked how they added the aliens to the book but when they were on the way to earth at the beginning of the book it was really boring. But then it got better. They have no animals and when Fen finds out where he is going to be living he is in for a huge suprise. Hope fully they can restore the animals on his home planet. For this book being a Sci Fi it was a good book and it had a lot of neat information in it like how they make the animals....
Somewhat a Good Book September 15, 2001
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The book is good, an interesting read but it lacks qualities I like in other books such as Fearless and Harry Potter. It interested me when I saw it in the school library and it had a lot of Accelerated Reader points so I picked it up. Quite good and I reccomend you read it.
Great Reading April 5, 2000
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a WONDERFUL book. It is all about an alien that comes to earth and has to learn all about the world. It is a little slow in the beginning but it makes for a very good reading. I would recomenend it to anyone I met.
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