{"product_id":"a-signal-9780312617769","title":"A Signal","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne day while running on the trail near his house in upstate New York, Owen McGuire meets a girl with startling green eyes and bloody cuts all over her body who seems to be utterly alone. Her name is Campion, after the wildflower that is an alien species in the area--\u003ci\u003ealien \u003c\/i\u003emeaning from someplace else--and Campion claims to come from someplace else entirely, a planet called Home. She plans to signal her parents to come pick her up in their spaceship. Owen agrees to help, and as he does, he feels happier than he has in a long time: His mother died a year and a half ago, and now he and his workaholic father live together like two planets on separate orbits, in a new house far from his friends. What will he do when Campion asks him to come with her into outer space, away from his lonely life on Earth?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCynthia DeFelice\u003c\/b\u003e was the author of many bestselling titles for young readers, including the novels \u003ci\u003eWild Life\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Ghost of Cutler Creek\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSignal\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Missing Manatee\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the picture books, \u003ci\u003eOne Potato, Two Potato\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCasey in the Bath\u003c\/i\u003e. Her books were nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award and listed as American Library Association Notable Children's Books and Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year, among numerous other honors. Cynthia was born in Philadelphia in 1951. As a child, she was always reading. Summer vacations began with a trip to the bookstore, where she and her sister and brothers were allowed to pick out books for their summer reading. \"To me,\" she said, \"those trips to the bookstore were even better than the rare occasions when we were given a quarter and turned loose at the penny-candy store on the boardwalk.\" Cynthia worked as a bookseller, a barn painter, a storyteller, and a school librarian. She and her husband lived in Geneva, New York. She died at age seventy-two in 2024.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martins Press-3PL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844324790546,"sku":"9780312617769","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4445e628-847d-400e-b09a-8acf5be60209.jpg?v=1737316873","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-signal-9780312617769","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}