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Just a touch makes all the difference.Life on Playalla isn''t too good to be true. It''s truly so good, newcomer Boo Fedupsca loses track of all time eating fruits galore, racing two-headed Skitzools through canyons and surfing forty-foot waves. Just one day in the Dream State Den, and he''s fluent in the alien planet''s melodic tongue.And after watching the galactic jag-top finals, Boo wants nothing more than to become a champion jagger. He can''t wait to begin training at the best academy in Orion Arm. If they accept the young Terran.On Boo''s home planet, though, changing climates leave once fertile lands barren. A global famine now threatens the lives of millions. Yet all is not lost. Tiny bits of a uniquely potent element cling to the many legs of his Millipedian friends, Taller and Shorter. The wheat, rice and corn seeds they touch will grow full in just a few hours. Once their Photon Flyer lands, the determined trio launches forth to feed many and awaken hope. Under cover of darkness, bare fields soon turn bountiful. But with each night, the dangers mount. Earth''s powerful few are not ready for the Playallan touch.

Come the essential uprising, whose side will you be on?  Outraged by the witness video, Cam Borlaug joins the swelling protest at a police station on Lake Street in Minneapolis. Amidst tear gas and rubber bullets, she struggles to stay on her feet after a flash grenade explodes nearby. A firm hand pulls her out of the miasma and splashes milk into burning eyes--another baptism under fire by BLM leader Maya Fortier. Fellow activists call her Cahmie-kaze after she bolts past baton-wielding cops and shoulders a fallen comrade to safety. Maya offers her a room in Movement House, where she and the brilliant autist Rayna come to share puppy chow, and a bed, by summer''s end.That fall, Cam puts eight boogaloos in their place after they destroy an Extinction Rebellion protest float. Soon an enterprising Ojibwe named Namid turns her into a climate-movement rock star. On Indigenous Peoples'' Day, she and her Lightship Greta 2.0 crew brave heavy rains and a right-wing blockade during their ten-mile trek to the state capitol in St. Paul. Even if they do make it, there''s no guarantee the governor will heed their call to cancel the tar-sands pipeline project up north. Will this daring protest-or any other--make a difference? Cam''s armada of activists aim to find out.