In her first novel since winning the Newbery Medal for When You Trap a Tiger Tae Keller offers
a gripping and emotional story about friendship bullying and the possiblity that there's more
in the universe than just us. Sometimes middle school can make you feel like you're totally
alone in the universe...but what if we aren't alone at all? Thanks to her best friend Reagan
Mallory Moss knows the rules of middle school. The most important one? You have to fit in to
survive. But then Jennifer Chan moves in across the street and that rule doesn’t seem to
apply. Jennifer doesn’t care about the laws of middle school or the laws of the universe. She
believes in aliens—and she thinks she can find them. Then Jennifer goes missing. Using clues
from Jennifer’s journals Mallory goes searching. But the closer she gets the more Mallory has
to confront why Jennifer might have run . . . and face the truth within herself. Tae Keller
lights up the sky with this insightful story about shifting friendships right and wrong and
the power we all hold to influence and change one another. No one is ever truly alone.
