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Star Hatchling
The female-dominated culture of a distant planet encounters human beings for the first time.
Paperback
Published
November 1st 1997
by Puffin
(first published 1995)
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For awhile in my childhood, this was my favorite book. What I remember now is that the author doesn't spell things out for you. I enjoyed that I was thrown, in medias res, into an alien culture that I had to understand clue by clue, like cracking a cryptogram or solving a mystery. I loved that the book involved me in this way and made me feel clever. By not dumping in explanations about everything, it also put me in a similar position to Hanna, the human who discovers the strange creatures. She...more
It was a little hard to get into, with all the made-up alien names for things, but in the end it was definitely a very sweet book.
Hanna crash-lands on an alien planet, separated from her family. Shem and Cheko find her and at first believe she is a strange animal from the stars and try to tame her. Multiple POVs, pretty interesting.
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This book was given to me by an older relative, and I found I liked it. It's told half from the point of view of an alien and half from an Earth child who's lost on his planet.
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Margaret Bechard is the author of five novels for younger readers, and one other young adult novel, IF IT DOESN'T KILL YOU, which SLJ praised for its "healthy dose of humor." She lives in Tigard, Oregon, with her family.
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