After a tough year, life's finally looking sweet for space cadet Cherry Trubill, seventeen. Just days away from graduation, she and besties DeeDee and Allegra "borrow" a prototype spacecraft for a joy flight. But the fun is short-lived when the ship malfunctions and catapults them from planet Blixod into another galaxy. Straight to Earth. Specifically, rural Montana.
Although figuring out a way home is priority number one, the trio seizes the chance to study Earthlings. Cherry soon discovers a few things: they're goofy, fragile, and besotted with pumpkin spice. In stark contrast, Blixodians are superhumans-unbreakable and able to leap tall buildings pretty much.
Blending in to avoid the authorities and suspicious mean girls isn't easy. And joining a cheerleading squad was so not on Cherry's radar. Neither was one intriguing blip-Nick Wilder, a boy who might just be the antidote to her homesickness.