[LM_NET] TAR: what is this book?

[Laura Burns <laura.burns@CMS.K12.NC.US>]

I have a friend who is trying to locate a book she read as a child but can't 
remember the title.  Can you help?

Small dry southwestern town, kids in high school, main character a boy. His mom 
drives her car through the desert to let off steam. Something weird is happening in 
the town. Strange events... like, perhaps, are townspeople turning into cactus? Is 
it aliens? Cannot remember. Think the book had a title something like "Day the 
earth stood still" but that must not be the title since I have searched obsessively 
and can't find it.


TIA!

Laura Burns, LMS
Reedy Creek Elementary
Charlotte, NC
laura.burns@cms.k12.nc.us

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