William Smith Keane

The workplace: bad coffee, stray roaches. The wheels of business churn. Enter a mysterious blob from outer space that crashes into the office and eats a man alive. His death wails annoy everyone; the authorities are called. Take a dive into the unknown horrors of bureaucracy, apathy and goo - and don't forget to turn in your paperwork.

The adventures of twelve-year-old Hannah Rayburn, a young middle-class Jewish girl living in 1965 North Carolina, and her upper-class Catholic best friend Grace McKee.