Author Description

Meet Chase Magnusson, the new kid in town. Moving across states is never easy, especially at the start of fifth grade. Chase desperately wants to make friends and fit in. When he looks through a telescope at his Back-to-School picnic and sees space creatures on Jupiter's moon, he realizes he has secret abilities. Chase decides that he can't tell anyone and takes matters into his own hands when he sets up a telescope by his bedroom window. The further Chase investigates life in space, the more he starts to question his own life. With one foot in the real world, and one foot in space, Chase is determined to stay true to himself, even at the risk of not fitting in. Readers will cheer for this quietly kind kid as he muddles through the hard times and thrives beyond his wildest dreams.