This book is about Beamer, who moves from California to middle America and feels like an alien. His new house does not do anything to help him feel at home, because it is completely filled with odd, voice activated contraptions. He meets up with two other strange kids named Scilla and Ghoulie, who become his new best friends. One day they are being chased by the school bully, Jared, when the three of them decide to hide in Beamers weird, Rocket ship shaped, tree house. That's when things begin to get really interesting. When Jared attempts to follow them he runs out screaming, and the tree house rockets them out on a Star trek like adventure.