I Am Number Four

By Pittacus Lore; Neil Kaplan (Read by)
(HarperCollins, Hardcover, 9780061969553, 448pp.)

Publication Date: August 2010

Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Paperback, Paperback, Paperback, Paperback

Categories: Action & Adventure - Survival Stories, Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic

Selected by Indie Booksellers for the Autumn 2010 Kids' Next List

“John Smith arrives in Paradise Ohio and hopes that this will finally be the place where he settle down and be a normal teenager. This isn't so easy considering he's an alien developing supernatural powers on the run from the Mogadorians who have destroyed his home planet and are hunting him down along with the eight other surviving Loriens. A novel that hits the ground running and doesn't let up until the very end, this first book in the Lorien Legacies will cause readers to stop and think: do they really live among us?”

-- Grace Firari, The Velveteen Rabbit Bookshop, Fort Atkinson, WI

Description

Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you. But we are not you. We can do things you dream of doing. We have powers you dream of having. We are stronger and faster than anything you have ever seen. We are the superheroes you worship in movies and comic books—but we are real.

Our plan was to grow, and train, and become strong, and become one, and fight them. But they found us and started hunting us first. Now all of us are running. Spending our lives in shadows, in places where no one would look, blending in. we have lived among you without you knowing.

But they know.

They caught Number One in Malaysia.
Number Two in England.
And Number Three in Kenya.
They killed them all.

I am Number Four.

I am next.

About the Author

Pittacus Lore is Lorien’s ruling Elder. He has been on Earth for the last twelve years, preparing for the war that will decide Earth’s fate. His whereabouts are unknown.

Praise For I Am Number Four…

“This is a can’t-put-it-down book.”
-Justine Magazine

“The intense pace, bigger-than-life fight scenes, and good vs. evil showdown set up a series that will easily draw in action-oriented sci-fi fans, who will eagerly await the next round.”
-Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

“Action–packed.”
-Publishers Weekly

“There’s genuine suspense…it’s easy to get lost in the world of the sweet teen from another planet.”
-Chicago Tribune

“Number Four is a hero for this generation.”
-Michael Bay, director of Transformers

“Terrifically propulsive.”
-Booklist

“Riveting.”
-The Horn Book

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