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What Came from the Stars

What Came from the Stars

ISBN: 0547612133

Title: What Came from the Stars

Author: Gary D. Schmidt

KDL Description:

What Came From the Stars by Gary D. Schmidt is a powerful story—quite Tolkienesque. Tommy Pepper discovers a chain that, when he wears it, gives him all the art and knowledge of the Valorim, a race of people from a distant galaxy. How this chain comes to him, and how it helps him and his family deal with the death of his mother, as well as how he becomes a help to those distant warriors, is written from both sides of the universe. I don’t know why people think Schmidt only writes for kids; his books are awesome for adults, too.
-Deb at KDL’s Cascade Township branch

Amazon Description:

The Valorim are about to fall to a dark lord when they send a necklace containing their planet across the cosmos, hurtling past a trillion stars . . . all the way into the lunchbox of Tommy Pepper, sixth grader, of Plymouth, Mass.

Mourning his late mother, Tommy doesn’t notice much about the chain he found, but soon he is drawing the twin suns and humming the music of a hanorah. As Tommy absorbs the art and language of the Valorim, their enemies target him. When a creature begins ransacking Plymouth in search of the chain, Tommy learns he must protect his family from villains far worse than he’s ever imagined.