The Spaceship Next Door
Kindle Edition
HarperCollins · Ebook · September 4, 2018
When a spaceship lands in Sorrow Falls, a lovable and fearless small-town girl is the planet’s only hope for survival Three years ago, a spaceship landed in an open field in the quiet mill town of Sorrow Falls, Massachusetts.
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- Who it’s for
- An unopened spaceship gives this small-town mystery a quietly cosmic, lightly playful pull.
- Themes
- Unexplained spaceship landing, Planetary survival, Small-town mystery
- Genres
- Sci-Fi, Alien Contact, Funny Sci-Fi
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When a spaceship lands in Sorrow Falls, a lovable and fearless small-town girl is the planet’s only hope for survival Three years ago, a spaceship landed in an open field in the quiet mill town of Sorrow Falls, Massachusetts. It never opened its doors, and for all that time, the townspeople have wondered why the ship landed there, and what—or who—could be inside. Then one day a government operative—posing as a journalist—arrives in town, asking questions.
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He discovers sixteen-year-old Annie Collins, one of the ship’s closest neighbors and a local fixture known throughout the town, who has some of the answers. As a matter of fact, Annie Collins might be the most important person on the planet. She just doesn’t know it.
Small-Town Space Oddity
An unopened spaceship gives this small-town mystery a quietly cosmic, lightly playful pull.
Come here for
- A quiet mill town with an unopened spaceship nearby
- A local mystery with stakes beyond the town
Expect
- A teenage local at the center of alien contact
- Questions around a ship that has stayed shut for years
Where it sits
| Alien Contact | 65% |
|---|---|
| Funny Sci-Fi | 65% |
| Sci-Fi | 39% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Contemporary Fantasy
- Sci-Fi
- Sci-Fi Adventure
- Alien Contact
- Authors
- Gene Doucette
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- September 4, 2018
- Format
- Ebook
- Theme
- Unexplained spaceship landing · Planetary survival · Small-town mystery
- Reading lane
- Contemporary Fantasy