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School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2017 | Young Adult
Gr 8 Up—An immediately engaging story with a massive plot twist. Seventeen-year-old Matty is facing an aimless summer in his small town when his slacker dad, DJ, finally leaves for good. Living next to a field where a spaceship purportedly crashed, Matty and his dad had bonded over a love of space. But as DJ becomes addicted to his fringe theory followers, the whole family grows apart. Matty tells himself he and his mom are better off without him. Then a frail white-haired girl appears in the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on November 1, 2017
When his father walks out on the family, seventeen-year-old Matty Jones flippantly tells his mother, "The ones left behind get on with their lives." But it's not that simple, and Jordan deftly delineates the discrepancy between Matty's apparent "good riddance" attitude and the real bond he knows he had with his father. And now he's met a "crazy, crazy girl" out in the field near his rural...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2018
When his father walks out on the family, seventeen-year-old Matty Jones flippantly tells his mother, "The ones left behind get on with their lives." But it's not that simple, and Jordan deftly delineates the discrepancy between Matty's apparent "good riddance" attitude and the real bond he knows he had with his father. And now he's met a "crazy, crazy girl" out in the field near his rural...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
