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Ambassador
- Narrated by: William Alexander
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 09-23-14
- Language: English
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Whispersync for Voice-ready
Regular price: $11.33
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Publisher's Summary
Gabe Fuentes is in for the ride of his life when he becomes Earth’s ambassador to the galaxy in this otherworldly adventure from the National Book Award-winning author of Goblin Secrets.
Gabe Fuentes is reading under the covers one summer night when he is interrupted by a creature who looks like a purple sock puppet. The sock puppet introduces himself as the Envoy and asks if Gabe wants to be Earth’s ambassador to the galaxy. What sane 11-year-old could refuse?
Some ingenious tinkering with the washing machine sends Gabe’s "entangled" self out to the center of the galaxy. There he finds that Earth is in the path of a destructive alien force - and Gabe himself is the target of an assassination plot. Exactly who wants him out of the way? And why?
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