- Child abuse, Emotional problems, Loneliness, Fiction
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.
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Contemporary, classical in form, grave and earnest.
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- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
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- intimateepic
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- Author
- Cynthia C. DeFelice
- First published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780374399153
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