Hello, Universe: A Newbery Award Winner
Description
Reading age 8-12
345 pages
Winner of the Newbery Meda
“A charming, intriguingly plotted novel.”—Washington Post
Newbery Medalist Erin Entrada Kelly’s Hello, Universe is a funny and poignant neighborhood story about unexpected friendships.
Told from four intertwining points of view—two boys and two girls—the novel celebrates bravery, being different, and finding your inner bayani (hero). “Readers will be instantly engrossed in this relatable neighborhood adventure and its eclectic cast of misfits.”—Booklist
In one day, four lives weave together in unexpected ways. Virgil Salinas is shy and kindhearted and feels out of place in his crazy-about-sports family. Valencia Somerset, who is deaf, is smart, brave, and secretly lonely, and she loves everything about nature. Kaori Tanaka is a self-proclaimed psychic, whose little sister, Gen, is always following her around. And Chet Bullens wishes the weird kids would just stop being so different so he can concentrate on basketball.
They aren’t friends, at least not until Chet pulls a prank that traps Virgil and his pet guinea pig at the bottom of a well. This disaster leads Kaori, Gen, and Valencia on an epic quest to find missing Virgil. Through luck, smarts, bravery, and a little help from the universe, a rescue is performed, a bully is put in his place, and friendship blooms.
The acclaimed and award-winning author of Blackbird Fly and The Land of Forgotten Girls writes with an authentic, humorous, and irresistible tween voice that will appeal to fans of Thanhha Lai and Rita Williams-Garcia.
“Readers across the board will flock to this book that has something for nearly everyone—humor, bullying, self-acceptance, cross-generational relationships, and a smartly fateful ending.”—School Library Journal
Virgilကတော့ ရှက်တတ်ပြီး ကြင်နာတတ်တဲ့ကောင်လေးဖြစ်ကာ Valenciaကတော့ နားမကြားပေမယ့်ရဲရင့်ပြီးထက်မြက်တဲ့ကောင်မလေးတစ်ဦးပါ။ Kaori ကတော့ သူ့ကိုယ်သူ Psychicလို့ပြောတတ်တဲ့ ကောင်မလေးတစ်ယောက်ဖြစ်ပြီး Genလို့ခေါ်တဲ့ညီမလေးတစ်ယောက်ရှိပါတယ်။ Chetကတော့ အပေါ်က ကလေးတွေရဲ့ရူးကြောင်ကြောင်လုပ်ရပ်တွေကို ရပ်တန့်စေချင်တဲ့ basketball playerတစ်ယောက်ပါ။ တစ်နေ့မှာ တော့ Chetရဲ့ စနောက်မှုကြောင့် Virgilတစ်ယောက် ရေတွင်းထဲပြုတ်ကျသွားရာကနေ Valencia, Kaori, Genတို့က ကြိုးစားရှာဖွေကယ်တင်ကြပါတော့တယ်။