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Plot Summary of Lizard Music
"In this story there are three main characters. Their names are Victor,Chicken Man, and the lizards, which would be the aliens or invaders. There is much detail in this story but the main actions are what count. Main actions like when Victor was home with his older sister and was watching tv late at night. Then when he discovers evidance of a secrert community of intelligent lizards. There was also an main action or much more of a thriller when he meets an eccentric with a hen in his hat who knows about everything, and they together go to the lizards territorry so to speak,in Thunderbolt City."
Devin L. Harris, Resident Scholar



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Plot
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - science fiction story
If an invasion, from Earth/human POV: - fighting overt invasion (attacking aliens) - subtle invasion (mind control, lookalikes)
War or Invasion Yes
Is this an adult or child's book? - Kid's book (ages 7-14)

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - student
Age: - a kid
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - throughout most of the book.
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Setting
Terrain - Domed/Underground City

Style
Person? - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
scientific jargon? (SF only) - a moderate amount of scientific explanation
How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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