- Fiction, Extraterrestrial beings, Exploration, Juvenile fiction
George is heartbroken when his neighbor Annie and her space-scientist father move to Florida, but when Annie sends him a secret message telling him she has been contacted by aliens with a terrible warning, he joins her in a galaxy-wide search for answers. Includes scientific essays on space travel.
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- Author
- Lucy Hawking, Stephen Hawking
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 299
- Publisher
- Dogan Egmont Yayincilik, Random House Children's Books, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- tur, Portuguese, lit, German
- ISBN
- 9780743583701
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Catherine Lucy Hawking (born 2 November 1970) is an English journalist, novelist, educator, and philanthropist. She is the daughter of the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and writer Jane Wilde Hawking. She lives in London, and is a children's novelist and science educator. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Hawking)
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