Alex, You're Glowing (The Secret World of Alex Max, No. 1) [Paperback]

Diana G. Gallagher (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 8 and up

Applying her extensive analytical skills to advice about the less-than-fairer sex, young Clarissa tries to understand why the nerdiest kid from last year has become this year's hunk and why her best friend has fallen in love.

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From the Publisher

Meet Alex Mack. It's her first day of junior high and everything goes wrong! She can't decide what to wear. Her mother packs her lunch in a troll lunchbox. She runs headlong into the Vice Principal. And then there's math class...

By the end of the day, after the most popular girl in school makes fun of Alex in front of the coolest guy ever, Alex is convinced her junior high days are over! But when a delivery truck overturns and covers Alex with a top-secret chemical and suddenly she has strange, new powers -- powers she can't control. It's exciting...and a little scary!

Now, with goons from the chemical company looking for her, Alex, her older sister, Annie, and her best friend, Raymond join forces in trying to outwit them.

Can she learn to control her new powers, avoid the company's investigators, and survive junior high? Welcome to the secret world of Alex Mack!

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Aladdin (April 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671525999
• ISBN-13: 978-0671525996
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #542,782 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A normal girl gains super powers in one day!, April 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Alex, You're Glowing (The Secret World of Alex Max, No. 1) (Paperback)

Alex was a pretty average kid going to her first day of junior high school. Her day is really rough, and on the way home, she gets drenched in an illegal chemical called GC-161. Now she can zap things through her fingers, float objects to her, and morph into a silver puddle. All too cool? Actually it is. It is hard to control herself sometimes, and having PVC Plant looking for her as a guinea pig isn't helping either. Can Alex keep a normal teen life and control her new abilities? Will the plant catch her? Read this book. I thought it was really good-- even better than the episode it's based on! If you like Alex Mack, this would be a good book to read.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Alex-was-just-an-average-kid-until-her-1st-day-of-junior-hi, February 17, 2002

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Ben (Appleton, WI, U.S.A.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Alex, You're Glowing (The Secret World of Alex Max, No. 1) (Paperback)

Alex was just a normal kid until her first day of junior high. One second Alex is walking home and then there's a crash. A truck from the paridise vally chemical plant over turns and drenches Alex in some weird chemical. And ever since then Alex has never been the same. The chemical gave Alex three powers: #1. Alex can move things just by thinking real hard about something. #2. Alex can morph into a liqued and stay like that but if she's in a more cold or in water she can stay a liqued longer. #3. Alex can zap things with her finger. Alex's best friend Ray thinks her powers are cool, And her sister Annie thinks Alex is a science project. Alex can't let anyone else no not even her parents because she knows the chemical plant wants to find her so they can use GC-161 to have it so one can stuff his/her face and not gain a pound.But you know what, Alex isn't so average anymore.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Never been the same, May 26, 2002

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Jeanine Price (Charleston, WV United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Alex, You're Glowing (The Secret World of Alex Max, No. 1) (Paperback)

This Alex Mack book is based on the first episode on "The secret world of Alex Mack".When Alex is sprayed with a chemical called GC-11,she got the power to morph into a puddle silver ooze,zap from her fingers,face turn yellow when nervous,and float objects!