This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2018 by Melissa Savage

Cover art copyright © 2018 by Lydia Nichols

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Savage, Melissa, author.

Title: The truth about Martians / Melissa Savage.

Description: First edition. | New York : Crown Books for Young Readers, [2018] | Summary: When a flying saucer crash-lands next to Mylo’s Roswell, New Mexico, ranch in 1947, he and his friends Dibs and Gracie set out to find and help the Martians.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018010157 | ISBN 978-1-5247-0016-4 (hardback) | ISBN 978-1-5247-0017-1 (glb) | ISBN 978-1-5247-0018-8 (epub)

Subjects: CYAC: Extraterrestrial beings—Fiction. | Unidentified flying objects—Fiction. | Adventure and adventurers—Fiction. | Friendship—Fiction. | Family life—New Mexico—Fiction. | Roswell (N.M.)—History—20th century—Fiction. | BISAC: JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Friendship. | JUVENILE FICTION / Family / General (see also headings under Social Issues). | JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.S2713 Tru 2018 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

Ebook ISBN 9781524700188

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