A Long Way from Home Laura Schaefer CAROLRHODA BOOKS MINNEAPOLIS
Do not look at stars as bright spots only Try to take in the vastness of the universe Maria Mitchell astronomer 1818 1889
1 T minus 62 days to launch The summer I turn twelve Mom and Dad finally let me have a phone Dad buys me an old model supposedly refurbished I have my doubts and the thing is glitchy right from the very beginning Once in a while I receive weird text messages from long streams of digits longer than any regular phone number I’ve ever seen They’re not even messages really Just words Single words that don’t make any sense But I don’t delete them and I don’t say anything anything about them to my parents who are worried enough about me as it is The first word I receive is HOUSE I stare at it for a while confused I text back You’ve got the wrong number but the reply says Message failed to send 1
