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By: Gary D. Schmidt

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  • CategoryFantasy
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Pages294
  • Published2012
  • File size3.6 MB
  • FormatPDF
  • ISBN9780547612133

Key ideas from the book

  • The Valorim send a necklace across the cosmos as their planet faces a dark lord.
  • The necklace reaches Tommy Pepper, a sixth grader in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
  • Tommy begins to absorb the Valorim’s art, language, and music.
  • A creature searching for the necklace brings danger to Plymouth.
  • Tommy must protect his family while grieving his mother.

About What Came from the Stars by Gary D. Schmidt

A necklace sent across the cosmos by the endangered Valorim lands in the lunchbox of Tommy Pepper, a sixth grader in Plymouth, Massachusetts. As Tommy begins to draw the Valorim’s twin suns and hum their music, he finds himself connected to a world he knows nothing about.

With Tommy grieving his mother’s death and a dangerous creature searching Plymouth for the necklace, this fantasy brings cosmic peril into a family’s everyday life. It may appeal to middle-grade readers who enjoy stories that combine an otherworldly conflict with a young protagonist’s efforts to protect those close to him.

About Gary D. Schmidt

Gary D. Schmidt is an American author of books for young readers and a professor of English at Calvin University in Michigan. His novels often bring young people into contact with history, family change, and difficult moral choices, balancing serious themes with humor and lively characters. His best-known works include *Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy* and *The Wednesday Wars*, both Newbery Honor books, as well as *Okay for Now* and *Orbiting Jupiter*.

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