by Adrianna Cuevas
narrated by Giordan Diaz, PJ Morgan, Matt Haynes, Beth Hicks, Stephanie Willing, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Erin DeWard, Cary Hite
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What Fell From The Sky by Adrianna Cuevas is a middle-grade historical science-fiction novel inspired by real-life history.
Pineda, a Cuban-American boy, lives in rural Texas with his parents during the cold war. One day, US soldiers parachute into town as a training exercise to mimic a communist take-over. However, they weren’t the only things to fall from the sky that day; Pineda soon finds an alien girl who crash-landed in his family’s barn.
This was such a delightful read! I laughed out loud several times, including some good cackles. I highly recommend the audiobook version–there are multiple narrators and they all do a phenomenal job.
There were so many important topics discussed in this book, and all were very well covered from a middle-grade lens. The author also has a ton of resources available on her website!
I had never heard of this military exercise before, but it was a fascinating rabbit hole to go down, especially in this day and age.
I received a complimentary review copy from Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Dreamscape Media, and NetGalley. All opinions contained herein are my own.
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