I really liked the IDEA of this (camp for gifted kids actually seems to be brainwashing them and then it turns out it's because of aliens/the government) but it felt just like kind of rushed and too simplistic?

Also (spoiler I guess whatever)

Spoiler

ok the aliens need to incubate their babies inside humans and then at the end the kids kill all the babies? Was that genocide? Is that the last of the bird aliens? Couldn't they have like found some other solution?? Like a heat lamp or something? what the F

Faith Hicks' art was cute and great.

IDK, I feel like this could have been really great if it were longer? Or just, I don't know, I guess GNs don't have to be longer to have characters you care about (cough [b:Robot Dreams|377254|Robot Dreams|Sara Varon|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1317066744s/377254.jpg|367095] cough crying forever about it), but just somehow more developed.

But it was a fun quick read and I'd give it to tweens.