When she doesnt speak, they try everything to learn more-visiting her in the hospital, searching the crash site, bribing the hospital staff with Wyatts blueberry confections, and doing reconnaissance to determine the hoppers provenance.
Review Quotes A moving story about what makes a family and making a home wherever you end up.-Kirkus Reviews After 14-year-old Sophie and her two best friends, K and Wyatt-all living with adoptive caretakers near a rural municipal airport-see a girl piloting a solo hot air balloon, a cloud hopper, fall from the sky in a sudden storm, they rush to help her. 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.
Book Synopsis 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 K-three misfit best friends with complex and harrowing stories of their own-do 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. About the Book Fourteen-year-old Sophie and her best friends Wyatt and K set out to help when a silent, mysterious girl in a homemade hot air balloon lands in rural Gilbertine.
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