Signal

Cynthia DeFelice

Sep 2009 · Sold by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

About this ebook

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.

Ratings and reviews

I thought the book was excellent. It was very intriguing and kept me wanting the read more. The book had no boring parts and i would recommend this to a 5th or 6th grader. I just read this book as a seventh grader and i felt it was not ment for my age group. Otherwise, it was the best book i ever read!

Thi book was O.K. Most of the book was just explaining about his feelings which was kinda a sleeper.

Great novel tu shud reed it

About the author

Cynthia DeFelice is the author of many bestselling books for young readers, including The Ghost of Fossil Glen, Wild Life, The Missing Manatee, and Weasel. Her books have been nominated for an Edgar Allen Poe Award and listed as American Library Association Notable Children's Books and Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year, among numerous other honors. She lives in upstate New York.