After moving with his emotionally distant father to the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, twelve-year-old Owen faces a lonely summer until he meets an abused girl who may be a space alien.

• ISBN: 9780374399153
• Author: Defelice, Cynthia
• Published: 2009 , Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
• Themes: abuse, Child abuse, Country life, Friendship, Loneliness, Summer
• Descriptors: Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), United States
• No. of pages: 160