What Came from the Stars, Gary D. Schmidt
What Came from the Stars, Gary D. Schmidt
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What Came from the Stars

Author: Gary D. Schmidt

Narrator: Jef Holbrook

Unabridged: 7 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Clarion Books

Published: 02/01/2022


Synopsis

The Valorim are about to fall to a dark lord when they send a necklace containing their planet across the cosmos, hurtling past a trillion stars . . . all the way into the lunchbox of Tommy Pepper, sixth grader, of Plymouth, Mass.
   Mourning his late mother, Tommy doesn't notice much about the chain he found, but soon he is drawing the twin suns and humming the music of a hanorah. As Tommy absorbs the art and language of the Valorim, their enemies target him. When a creature begins ransacking Plymouth in search of the chain, Tommy learns he must protect his family from villains far worse than he's ever imagined.

About Gary D. Schmidt

Gary D. Schmidt is the bestselling author of The Labors of Hercules Beal; Just Like That; National Book Award finalist Okay for Now; Pay Attention, Carter Jones; Orbiting Jupiter; the Newbery Honor and Printz Honor Book Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy; and the Newbery Honor Book The Wednesday Wars. He is also coauthor, with Ron Koertge, of Styx and Stones. He lives in rural Michigan.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cathe Fein on January 31, 2013

I am a fan of Gary Schmidt and think he's a wonderful writer, but I unfortunately I did not enjoy this book. I am not a fan of high fantasy so that was a problem right there as this book alternates between extremely high fantasy chapters that take place in another world with strangely-named characte......more

Goodreads review by Linda on February 05, 2016

The concept was good, and there were humorous incidents, but for me it just didn't work. It is clean, moralistic, and ends well. Middle school boys would likely love it .......more

Goodreads review by Richie on May 17, 2012

WHAT CAME FROM THE STARS by Gary D. Schmidt, Clarion, September 2012, 304p., ISBN: 978-0-547-61213-3 “In the end there’s just a song Comes crying like the wind Through all the broken dreams And vanished years” -- Garcia/Hunter, “Stella Blue” “’See for yourself.’ said Mr. Burroughs, and they walked into th......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie on March 24, 2021

This was a stretch for me since I’m not a sci-fi girl. But I do really enjoy Gary Schmidt’s writing, so I thought I’d give it a chance. Well done and beautiful story. I’m still not a sci-fi fan but I’m glad I challenged myself and gave it a whirl with this well written book.......more

Goodreads review by TheBookSmugglers on October 08, 2012

In a galaxy far, far away, the Dark Lord Mondus is about to kill the last of the Valorim and thus, seize control of their Art. In a last desperate effort, Young Waeglim forges the Art of the Valorim into a chain and sends it across galaxies and planets. And so it has come to pass that said chain lan......more