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Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone by Tae Keller
Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone by Tae Keller










Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone by Tae Keller Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone by Tae Keller

She’s willing to embrace the strange, the unknown… the extraterrestrial. She doesn’t seem to care about the laws of middle school, or the laws of the universe. After meeting the cool girl, Reagan, she finally has a best friend, and Reagan makes Mallory feel like she belongs, like she can fit in this infinite universe, as long as she follows Reagan’s simple rules: wear the right clothes, control your image, know your place.īut when Jennifer Chan moves into the house across the street, those rules don’t feel quite so simple anymore. Sometimes middle school can make you feel like you're totally alone in the universe.but what if we aren't alone at all? Agent: Faye Bender, Book Group.A story about a girl who is alienated by her friends.

Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone by Tae Keller

Its core message about bullying and its effect on both the bully and their target offer a sincere look into individuals' desire for acceptance. Keller (When You Trap a Tiger) uses a vulnerable first-person narrative that alternates between past and present to sensitively detail the emotional roller coaster of navigating changing social rules, the anxieties of being oneself, and the process of coming to terms with one's flaws. After Jennifer runs away, Mal searches for her, using the help of entries from one of Jennifer's notebooks, determined to make up for past mistakes by solving the mystery behind her absence. Mal's certainty that their classmates won't accept Jennifer's idiosyncrasies are confirmed when school begins and Jennifer becomes the target of harassment at the hands of Mal's best friends Tess and Reagan, both cued as white. But when Mal learns that Jennifer believes in aliens, she worries that pursuing a friendship will negatively impact her social status at school. Unaccustomed to new kids moving to Norwell, Fla., 12-year-old Mal Moss, who is part Korean and part white, is excited when Chinese American classmate Jennifer arrives. Tae Keller lights up the sky with this insightful story about shifting friendships, right and wrong, and the power we all hold to influence and change one another. But the closer she gets, the more Mallory has to confront why Jennifer might have run. Using clues from Jennifer’s journals, Mallory goes searching.

Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone by Tae Keller

She believes in aliens-and she thinks she can find them. Jennifer doesn’t care about the laws of middle school, or the laws of the universe. But then Jennifer Chan moves in across the street, and that rule doesn’t seem to apply. The most important one? You have to fit in to survive. Thanks to her best friend, Reagan, Mallory Moss knows the rules of middle school. In her first novel since winning the Newbery Medal for When You Trap a Tiger, Tae Keller offers a gripping and emotional story about friendship, bullying, and the possiblity that there's more in the universe than just us.












Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone by Tae Keller