I want to read this book because it seems super interesting. It is a bout a boy who sees a girl that is hurt and sad. He wonders who is she? She is a girl from another planet. She asks him if he wants to help her send a signal to her planet. Once they finish she asks him if he wants to go live with her at her planet. This is a hard choice coming from a boy who's family is spread apart. This is why I want to read it.
Signal
By Cynthia DeFelice
| Interest Level | Reading Level | Reading A-Z | ATOS | Word Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grades 4 - 8 | Grades 3 - 5 | n/a | 4.7 | 33863 |
One day while running on the trail near his house in upstate New York, Owen McGuire meets a girl with startling green eyes and bloody cuts all over her body who seems to be utterly alone. Her name is Campion, after the wildflower that is an alien species in the area--alien meaning "from someplace else"--and Campion claims to come from someplace else entirely, a planet called Home. She plans to signal her parents to come pick her up in their spaceship. Owen agrees to help, and as he does, he feels happier than he has in a long time: his mother died a year and a half ago, and now he and his workaholic father live together like two planets on separate orbits, in a new house far from his friends. What will he do when Campion asks him to come with her into outer space, away from his lonely life on Earth?
In this moving novel, two friendless kids search the night sky for something to believe in--but discover that they've found what they need right here on Earth.
Publisher: SquareFish
Published on 2/28/2011
Binding: Paperback
Book Reviews (2)
i love this book. it is about a boy who finds a girl that has been abused. and a boy helps her. and it turns out that the girl is an alien. he helps her get back to her planet. but thay have to make a signal first.