Mal's certainty that their classmates won't accept Jennifer's idiosyncrasies are confirmed when school begins and Jennifer becomes the target of harassment at the hands of Mal's best friends Tess and Reagan, both cued as white. But when Mal learns that Jennifer believes in aliens, she worries that pursuing a friendship will negatively impact her social status at school. Unaccustomed to new kids moving to Norwell, Fla., 12-year-old Mal Moss, who is part Korean and part white, is excited when Chinese American classmate Jennifer arrives. 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. But the closer she gets, the more Mallory has to confront why Jennifer might have run. Using clues from Jennifer’s journals, Mallory goes searching. She believes in aliens-and she thinks she can find them. Jennifer doesn’t care about the laws of middle school, or the laws of the universe. But then Jennifer Chan moves in across the street, and that rule doesn’t seem to apply. The most important one? You have to fit in to survive. Thanks to her best friend, Reagan, Mallory Moss knows the rules of middle school. Sometimes middle school can make you feel like you're totally alone in the universe.but what if we aren't alone at all? 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.
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