Dancing with an Alien by Mary Logue
The title of the book is dancing with an Alien. It is written by Mary Logue. This book was published in April 26th 2000 by Harper Teen as the first edition. It is written in English language and has 144 pages. The book is appropriate for teenager at Grade 8 to 10.Dancing with an alien is a story about Branko, who is a boy at his teenage years. His main mission to the earth is to find a wife because back at his planet home, all the women have died.
The men in that planet are extremely desperate for women who will sire them children. Bronko’s first encounter with a woman was Tonia a seventeen year old girl whom she immediately fell in love with, but he did not want her to start bearing children for him immediately. Tonia lives in Minneapolis suburbs, and she has lived a normal life. Branko is saved from drowning by Tonia. After regaining consciousness, Branko said something which Tonia has never heard before, and she immediately knew that the young boy was not an ordinary boy. He was an alien though not a scary or horrible way. Instead, Branko was gentle, polite, kind and sweet. This made Tonia to also fall in love with him immediately.
Despite the lessons that Branko had been taught on how to interact with the human being on earth, he experienced an extraordinary, difficult time in understanding the actual behavior of man. He found some of the human actions. He saw them to be tremendously complex and which caused both laughter and pain to him and to Tonia. Branko was constantly asked about his origin by people close to Tonia. He lied to them by saying that he came from Romania.
Beatrice who was only of Tonia’s friends and was also in love for the very first time started to be suspicious concerning the origin of Branko. This makes Tonia to be also suspicious and starts to ask Branko questions concerning his main reason of coming to Earth. She actually gets surprise by the genuine and honest answer that Branko tells her. This follows Tonia’s debate to travel to the other planet with her newly found lover or to stay and loss his love forever.
This is a compelling novel for a teenage girl who are at the age of fantasizing to find that handsome man who will love, cherish them and live a happy life there after. Logue has managed to capture the perspectives of young people. Each of the chapters in the book contains different voices and agonizing choices to create characters in this novel whom readers get to sympathize with. for instance, we see Tonia debating within a herself on whether or not to go to Branko and her people. We also see Branko not wishing Tonia to be the sire of children to him yet his main mission on earth in search of a woman to sire children so that the alien race does not become extinct.
The story is set in Minnesota, and the author presents alternating view points of various events that transpire in the novel. Unlike many stories, which look at the scientific perspective of aliens, Logue presents the kind of love and relationship those exquisite between aliens and humans which touch the heart of the readers. This can be an amusing story for girls because they at their stage would wish to fall in love as a first experience in their lives. I have not seen any frightening aspect in the store. I would like to include the book in my collection because it is easily readable because of its straightforward language.
Reference:
Logue M (2000) Dancing with an Alien. Harper Collins
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