# The True Meaning of Smekday

**Author:** Adam Rex
**Grade range:** Grades 5–12
**First published:** 2013
**Page count:** 434
**Genre:** Science Fiction & Fantasy
**ISBN-13:** `9781408844915`
**ISBN-10:** `1408844915`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-true-meaning-of-smekday
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Aliens have invaded Earth and instructed all of the humans to move to Florida. They landed on Christmas Day - now named Smekday, after the glorious leader of the Boovs, Captain Smek. Gratuity Tucci doesn't want to be shipped off to Florida in a rocketpod. She has a plan . . . Luckily Gratuity can drive - she nails tin cans to her shoes to reach the pedals. She had to learn after her mum was abducted by the aliens. So begins an epic journey with a brilliant girl hero, a cat named Pig and a friendly Boov who's taken the human name J.Lo, all determined to save the Earth from a much bigger threat . . .This original, imaginative and wonderfully wacky sci-fi adventure inspired the major motion picture, HOME

## Where this book is assigned

### Andre Norton Award for Middle Grade & Young Adult Fiction

- **recommended** · 5th grade — [source: Andre Norton Award (SFWA) winners + finalists, via Wikipedia — 2007 Honor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Norton_Award)
- **recommended** · 6th grade — [source: Andre Norton Award (SFWA) winners + finalists, via Wikipedia — 2007 Honor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Norton_Award)
- **recommended** · 7th grade — [source: Andre Norton Award (SFWA) winners + finalists, via Wikipedia — 2007 Honor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Norton_Award)
- **recommended** · 8th grade — [source: Andre Norton Award (SFWA) winners + finalists, via Wikipedia — 2007 Honor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Norton_Award)
- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: Andre Norton Award (SFWA) winners + finalists, via Wikipedia — 2007 Honor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Norton_Award)
- **recommended** · 10th grade — [source: Andre Norton Award (SFWA) winners + finalists, via Wikipedia — 2007 Honor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Norton_Award)
- **recommended** · 11th grade — [source: Andre Norton Award (SFWA) winners + finalists, via Wikipedia — 2007 Honor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Norton_Award)
- **recommended** · 12th grade — [source: Andre Norton Award (SFWA) winners + finalists, via Wikipedia — 2007 Honor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Norton_Award)

### Odyssey Award (Best Audiobook)

- **recommended** · 5th grade — [source: Odyssey Award (best audiobook) winners + honors, via Wikipedia — 2011 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_Award)
- **recommended** · 6th grade — [source: Odyssey Award (best audiobook) winners + honors, via Wikipedia — 2011 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_Award)
- **recommended** · 7th grade — [source: Odyssey Award (best audiobook) winners + honors, via Wikipedia — 2011 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_Award)
- **recommended** · 8th grade — [source: Odyssey Award (best audiobook) winners + honors, via Wikipedia — 2011 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_Award)
- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: Odyssey Award (best audiobook) winners + honors, via Wikipedia — 2011 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_Award)
- **recommended** · 10th grade — [source: Odyssey Award (best audiobook) winners + honors, via Wikipedia — 2011 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_Award)
- **recommended** · 11th grade — [source: Odyssey Award (best audiobook) winners + honors, via Wikipedia — 2011 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_Award)
- **recommended** · 12th grade — [source: Odyssey Award (best audiobook) winners + honors, via Wikipedia — 2011 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_Award)

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