Cloud Hopper eBook

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

When a girl in a homemade hot air balloon falls out of the sky in rural Gilbertine, there are questions: Who is this girl, where exactly did she come from, why wont she talk, and what has she risked to live in a country that does not seem to want her?

And what can Sophie, Wyatt, and Kthree misfit best friends with complex and harrowing stories of their owndo to help the girl who cant trust those who want to help her? What should they do? As seen through the eyes of 14-year-old Sophie, who lives with her terminally ill grandmother,Cloud Hopper by National Book Award finalist Beth Kephart is a poignant, high-flying adventure set among the old planes, Vietnam vets, and majestic hot air balloons of a run-down municipal airport. Its about the rules well break and the dangers well face to do the most-right thing we can imagine, even when were feeling long past brave.