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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.

Sometimes middle school can make you feel like you're totally alone in the universe...but what if we aren't alone at all?

Thanks to her best friend, Reagan, Mallory Moss knows the rules of middle school. The most important one? You have to fit in to survive. But then Jennifer Chan moves in across the street, and that rule doesn’t seem to apply. Jennifer doesn’t care about the laws of middle school, or the laws of the universe. She believes in aliens—and she thinks she can find them.

Then Jennifer goes missing. Using clues from Jennifer’s journals, Mallory goes searching. But the closer she gets, the more Mallory has to confront why Jennifer might have run . . . and face the truth within herself.

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. No one is ever truly alone.

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8 - 12 years
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288 pages
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English
Grade level

3 - 7
Lexile measure

640L
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14.61 x 2.64 x 21.59 cm
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Random House Books for Young Readers
Publication date

April 26 2022
ISBN-10

0593310527
ISBN-13

978-0593310526
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One of those is aliens. And the other is me.

"I absolutely loved this book!" —R. J. Palacio, author of Wonder

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“I absolutely loved this book! Tae’s glorious writing had me hooked and her characters, so wonderfully imperfect and nuanced, felt instantly relatable. She had me wondering which is more mysterious: extraterrestrials, or the beautiful, occasionally-heartbreaking intricacies of friendship.” –R. J. Palacio, New York Times bestselling author of Wonder and Pony

"Keller’s skillful interior narration puts us inside Mallory’s skin, even when it makes us uncomfortable." —The New York Times

★ “A mesmerizing look at bullying and its aftereffects.” —Kirkus, starred review

★ “By setting the victim, the missing Jennifer, into the narrative background, Keller directs the flood light onto Mallory and company and aims responsibility (and possible redemption) right where it belongs.” —The Bulletin, starred review

★ “With an appeal to a wide variety of readers, this genre fusion is highly recommended for all library shelves.” —School Library Journal, starred review

★ “The emotionally absorbing story is full of thought-provoking explorations on self-confidence, forgiveness, and friendship while illuminating parallels between alien and human struggles.” —Booklist, starred review

★ “Keller 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.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

About the Author

TAE KELLER is the Newbery Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of When You Trap A Tiger and The Science of Breakable Things. She was born and raised in Honolulu, where she grew up on purple rice, Spam musubi, and her halmoni's stories. After high school, she moved in search of snow, and now lives in Seattle. Visit her at TaeKeller.com, follow her monthly love letters at bit.ly/lovetae, and find her on Twitter and Instagram.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House Books for Young Readers (April 26 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593310527
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593310526
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 408 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14.61 x 2.64 x 21.59 cm

Best Sellers Rank: #383,608 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #441 in Children's Books on Violence
- #858 in Children's Nonfiction on Bullying
- #1,308 in Children's Books on Mystery & Wonders

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TAE KELLER grew up in Honolulu, where she wrote stories, ate Spam musubis, and participated in her school’s egg drop competition. (She did not win.) After graduating from Bryn Mawr College, she moved to New York City to work in publishing, and she now has a very stubborn Yorkie and a multitude of books as roommates.

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Heidi Grange

A heart-breaking but very important read.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 17, 2022

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Jennifer Chan is Not Alone broke my heart in a lot of ways, and yet reminded me that people can change. I found it interesting that the story is told from Mallory's point of view. Mallory who hangs out with the 'mean girls', although neither she nor her friends considers themselves that way. Mallory worries a great deal about who she is and what others see when they look at her. Popular girl, Reagan, teaches her that controlling your image is the way to find her identity. But when Jennifer Chan moves to town, Mallory learns that while power and control are intoxicating, they aren't the way to find friends or come to peace with yourself. Jennifer Chan knows who she is and what she believes in and she shows it at school. Mallory is drawn to quality in Jennifer and yet she's afraid of it as well. After befriending Jennifer at her mother's insistence, Mallory follows Reagan's lead in treating Jennifer poorly. Mallory convinces herself that Jennifer needs to follow the 'rules' in order to be accepted. After what Mallory calls "the Incident", Jennifer disappears and Mallory feels compelled to find her. But Reagan refuses to help. Mallory turns to Kath and Ingrid for help, but discovers that she will need to step out of her comfort zone and face some unpleasant truths in order to have a chance at finding Jennifer.

I really rode an emotional roller coaster while reading this book. I empathized with Mallory's worries as she tries to figure out her identity. This is a common struggle in middle school. But I also got really frustrated with her willingness to follow everything that Reagan and Tess suggested, even when she knew it was wrong. She justified some awful behavior by telling herself it was 'necessary' to help Jennifer understand the 'rules'. And honestly, I had a hard time reading about 'the Incident'. Having experienced bullying in middle school myself, my heart broke for Jennifer. I was so angry at Mallory and her friends. I guess what this proves is that Tae Keller wrote a remarkably relatable book. When she explains in the author's note at the end that the book is based on experiences she had in middle school, it explained how she managed to make it feel so real and so emotionally powerful. The science information involving space and the search for alien connection made for a fascinating side plot with some interesting twists and turns. All in all I find this to be a well-written, important book for middle grade readers. Books like this one are so important in helping young readers develop empathy. And telling the story from Mallory's point-of-view allows readers to get a feel for what it's like to try to correct a mistake. I appreciated the reminder that while people make mistakes all the time, sometimes some pretty horrible ones, it's also possible to change, to be better, and to help make the world a better place. As I like to tell my students, that's the reason the word's 'I'm sorry' were invented.

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The Write Edge

Awesome book for middle schoolers and adults alike!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 27, 2022

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A middle schooler feels guilty that she encouraged a classmate to run away from home and decides to put her efforts toward looking for the girl. As she combs through her classmate’s journals and her own memories of their time together, the middle schooler must come to terms with how involved she actually was with the disappearance and what that means about what kind of person she is. Newberry Medal winner Tae Keller writes from the heart and personal experience in the thoughtful, touching novel Jennifer Chan is Not Alone.

Mallory Moss is psyched about seventh grade…well, sort of. She’s part of the “in” crowd with her friends, Reagan and Tess, and unlike other schools or stuff people see on TV Reagan and Tess actually care about Mallory. In fact, Reagan helps Mallory figure out what to say, how to dress, and what to do so people always see her as popular. In their small town of Norwell, Florida—what all the kids Nowhereville—the hierarchy at school matters a lot.

Then Jennifer Chan moves in across the street from Mallory. Jennifer clearly doesn’t know what to wear or say to fit in at school. The year hasn’t even started yet, and Mallory already knows that Jennifer’s going to get into trouble with pretty much everyone. She sticks out, and she doesn’t seem to care.

The biggest evidence of this is that Jennifer believes in aliens. Like, legit landed-from-Mars-to-beam-people-up aliens. She says Nowhereville has a special energy; she’s even seen crop circles that are hardcore proof that something is up with the town, and that something is extraterrestrial.

Mallory is fascinated by Jennifer, because Jennifer seems so confident. Nothing like Mallory who struggles almost daily. If it wasn’t for Reagan, Mallory knows she would have been an outcaste at school.

But that title is given to Jennifer when the year starts. As people get to know her, they realize what a weirdo she is. Mallory feels bad; she kind of gave Jennifer the idea that she believes in aliens too. Now, though, Jennifer expects them to continue their friendship all throughout seventh grade.

Even though Mallory doesn’t want to be Jennifer’s friend, she tries to help her out. So do Reagan and Tess; kind of, anyway. Reagan keeps talking about making sure Jennifer knows her place, but Mallory knows Reagan would never do anything really bad.

Until she crosses a line. What’s worse, Mallory is right there beside her. Then Jennifer runs away from home, and Mallory starts to get the creeping sensation that she and her friends are responsible.

She puts together a plan to look for Jennifer using all the things she learned about the new girl over the summer. As she does so, Mallory starts to realize that even if Jennifer kept saying that aliens were real—and even if they weren’t—those things shouldn’t have stopped Mallory from trying to be a real friend to Jennifer. But if she wasn’t her friend, what was she?

Author Tae Keller shares in an author’s note at the end of the book her experiences in being bullied as a middle schooler. She talks about reaching out years later to the bullies who made her miserable and having frank conversations with them, then using that research to form the core of the book. The result is a novel that will undoubtedly speak to the hearts of most middle schoolers struggling with bullying, whether as a victim, an observer, or as the bully themselves.

Keller weaves Jennifer’s belief in aliens through the story in the most organic way. Jennifer’s refusal to give up on an impossible situation will convince even the most skeptical reader to consider the fact that absolutely anything is possible. If aliens can be real, then bullies can reform their ways.

By making Mallory the main character, readers get a firsthand look into the ambivalence many students feel when witnessing or even participating in bullying. It’s easy to talk about how bullying is wrong in class or with grownups; it’s much harder to remember those things when the situation is live and center. Keller gives Mallory opportunities to fail as a character so that her redemption is that much more powerful.

Teachers and parents alike who want to start a conversation about bullying that goes beyond the victim and the instigator absolutely must read and share this book with their middle schoolers.

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 14, 2022

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This. Book. This book shook my mom heart to the CORE. If you HAVE a middle schooler, if you KNOW a middle schooler, if you WERE a middle schooler… Read. This. Now. I will 💯 admit that when it came out I read the description and immediately deleted it. Not my jam at all. I’m not a fan of mean girl books. I don’t usually enjoy contemporary fiction. Then one of the librarians I admire the most chose it for a book club so I begrudgingly started to read it. I could not put it down. When I finished it I immediately shared it with all of the friends that I could think of. This book cracked my heart. It left me wondering. It left me remembering middle school and trying to figure out which girl I was. It left me wondering which girl I am now. So if you have a child in 3rd or 4th grade and up, a daughter especially because I feel like they face a different kind of pressure than boys, put this book in their hands. But put it in your own as well. Read it aloud together. Listen to the audiobook while in the car. Let this book fill your heart and fill the space between you with some very important conversations about kindness, bravery, and who really gets to decide who we are.

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So glad I read this!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 14, 2022

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This is a book about bullying, but it's really a book about being human and what that means for all of us. It's about how we interact with the world, how we can choose to define ourselves or let others define us. It's extraordinarily philosophical for a middle grade, as the narrator explores the impetus behind human behavior, both the good and the slippery slope of the bad— without the painful "headiness" of adult philosophy with a capital P. The narrator's middle grade voice is spot on. The situations are very real. There is humor and lightness to accompany the darkness. And yes, the ending offers hope (for all of us). Highly recommended!

Kumquat Grower

For anyone who has lived through either side of bullying

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 21, 2022

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Once again, Tae Keller has hit the nail on the head. I have known these characters, in myself, my kids, my kids friends. Great tone and characters and thoughtful portrayal of all sides of bullying. My daughters were both bullied at times from 5th to 9th grade, so it was cathartic to read this book. Here's to Jennifer Chan and her emotional development through this story! Depending on the kid, I would recommend this book to age 10 to 15.

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