Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone

In her first novel since winning the Newbery Medal for When You Trap a Tiger, Tae Keller offers a gripping and emotional story about friendship, bullying, and the possiblity that there's more in the universe than just us.

Sometimes middle school can make you feel like you're totally alone in the universe...but what if we aren't alone at all?

Thanks to her best friend, Reagan, Mallory Moss knows the rules of middle school. The most important one? You have to fit in to survive. But then Jennifer Chan moves in across the street, and that rule doesn't seem to apply. Jennifer doesn't care about the laws of middle school, or the laws of the universe. She believes in aliens--and she thinks she can find them.

Then Jennifer goes missing. Using clues from Jennifer's journals, Mallory goes searching. But the closer she gets, the more Mallory has to confront why Jennifer might have run . . . and face the truth within herself.

Tae Keller lights up the sky with this insightful story about shifting friendships, right and wrong, and the power we all hold to influence and change one another. No one is ever truly alone.

Author: Tae Keller
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Published: 04/26/2022
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.9lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780593310526
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.6
Point Value: 9
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 515547 / Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone


Review Citation(s):
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 04/01/2022 - Book Of Special Distinction
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2022
School Library Journal 04/01/2022 pg. 135
Publishers Weekly 04/18/2022
Booklist 05/01/2022 pg. 58
Horn Book Magazine 05/01/2022 pg. 146

About the Author
TAE KELLER is the Newbery Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of When You Trap A Tiger and The Science of Breakable Things. She was born and raised in Honolulu, where she grew up on purple rice, Spam musubi, and her halmoni's stories. After high school, she moved in search of snow, and now lives in Seattle. Visit her at TaeKeller.com, follow her monthly love letters at bit.ly/lovetae, and find her on Twitter and Instagram.