{"product_id":"my-bff-is-an-alien-1","title":"My BFF is an Alien","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"video-wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iFZAiZOiUkA\" title=\"Doing the Write Thing: Vivian Teo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eMeet Abriana Yeo, 13, awkward and friendless. Meet Octavia\nWu, a graceful teenage alien with superpowers. Forced to flee her home planet\nViridis after an invasion by \"The Others\", another alien\nspecies, Octavia and her parents crash-land in the Singapore heartland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003ePretending to be a foreign student, Octavia enters secondary\none and befriends Abriana, who then helps her in her quest to find the Anteris,\na missing element the alien family needs if they want to return to Viridis to\nhelp in the war effort. All the while, the two girls also need to navigate the\nintricate web of teenage drama at Bukit Timah Secondary Girls’ School (BTSGS),\nwhere mean girls thwart their search efforts every step of the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eBehind the adventure, mystery and sci-fi, this middle-grade\nnovel also explores the pertinent issues that teenagers typically deal with in\na local school setting—friendship, loyalty, CCAs, homework and bullies. There\nis also no shortage of excitement and intrigue in this sci-fi and adventure.\nThis is the first in a four-book series, for children aged 10 and above. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eVivian Teo\u003c\/b\u003e worked as a financial journalist and\neditor for fourteen years at major US and UK trade publications. She became a\nfreelance writer to spend more time with her two daughters and to write about\nthings close to her heart. This led to \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy BFF Is an Alien\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e,\nher first middle-grade series. She now enjoys writing about parenting,\neducation, social and financial issues for various media, and blogging on her\nown parenting\/lifestyle website, The Stuff Childhoods Are Made Of, at vivianteo.com.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eFollow Vivian Teo on Facebook @VivianTeoAuthor and Instagram\n@VivianTeoWriter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"APD (S) PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44865389330639,"sku":"9789814845908","price":19.51,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_7e9274df-4e7b-4d87-bc7d-43df9d3ad361.webp?v=1771900349","url":"https:\/\/popular.com.sg\/products\/my-bff-is-an-alien-1","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}