Pappy Faulkner
Seven vignettes explore the difference between fantasy and reality, memory and history, and the joy and agony of the human condition.
Many middle school students focus on their everyday anxieties unaware of the impending end of the world, until an Army staff sergeant announces a campus lockdown at an emergency assembly.
Four alien children are sent to Earth for a year of "how to be a human kid" training. One problem: they are awful at assimilating, constantly find themselves in bizarre situations, and make horrible decisions.