In the tradition of Counting by 7s and Walk Two Moons comes a funny, luminous, utterly moving novel about a space-obsessed boy, his dog named Carl Sagan (named for the boy\'s hero), and a journey toward family, love, hope, and awe. --Ally Condie, author of Matched. --Booklist Full of the real kind of magic. --Paul Griffin, author When Friendship Followed Me Home Exuberant. --Publishers Weekly, starred review A gift--a miracle. --Kirkus, starred review A propulsive stream-of-conscious dive. --Holly Goldberg Sloan, author of Counting by 7s Riveting, inspiring, and sometimes hilarious. --The Chicago Tribune The best I\'ve read in a long, long time. --The New York Times Book Review Irresistible. --The Wall Street Journal Works beautifully. --Entertainment Weekly Life-embracing.
Stellar.
To read the last is to know he and his story will stay with you a long, long time.
To read the first page is to fall in love with Alex and his view of our big, beautiful, complicated world.
Jack Cheng\'s debut is full of joy, optimism, determination, and unbelievable heart.
And the funny, lost, remarkable people he meets along the way can only partially prepare him for the secrets he\'ll uncover--from the truth about his long-dead dad to the fact that, for a kid with a troubled mom and a mostly not-around brother, he has way more family than he ever knew.
But his destination keeps changing.
From Colorado to New Mexico, Las Vegas to L.
A., Alex records a journey on his iPod to show other lifeforms what life on earth, his earth, is like.
All he wants is to launch his golden iPod into space the way Carl Sagan (the man, not the dog) launched his Golden Record on the Voyager spacecraft in 1977. 11-year-old Alex Petroski loves space and rockets, his mom, his brother, and his dog Carl Sagan--named for his hero, the real-life astronomer. --Jennifer Niven, author of All the Bright Places A space-obsessed boy and his dog, Carl Sagan, take a journey toward family, love, hope, and awe in this funny and moving novel for fans of Counting by 7s, Walk Two Moons, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
I haven\'t read anything that has moved me this much since Wonder.
In the tradition of Counting by 7s and Walk Two Moons comes a funny, luminous, utterly moving novel about a space-obsessed boy, his dog named Carl Sagan (named for the boy\'s hero), and a journey toward family, love, hope, and awe
