Vega’s Piece of the Sky

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A meteorite comes crashing down on the lives of three middle schoolers changing everything they know about family, friendships, and community in this charming and heartfelt novel with a light STEM touch.

The space rock is just the latest thing to land, uninvited, in Vega Luceros road-stophometown. But when she discovers how much a chunk of the meteorite might be worth, sherealizes its exactly the treasure shes been hoping to findand maybe a way to convince hermom not to sell the family store to big city developers to help pay for her grandpa Tata’s medical expenses.

Determined to find more pieces of the sky somewhere in the perilous desert wilderness, stubbornly independent Vega must setaside her distrust of outsiders to team up with Jasper, a would-be rivaland her own tagalongcousin Milaon an overnight adventure to find more meteorites before the professional hunterswho have descended on Date City do. But along the way, she realizes that she’s not the only one with the weight of the world on her shoulders. Jasper and Mila have secrets and worries of their own that has brought them on this journey.

Together, this ragtag group will battle against coyotes, a flood, and scorpions. But what they will ultimately discover is that no treasure is big enoughto prevent unwelcome change. Only family and friends can help weather the unexpected that life brings.