Title: Hilo: The Boy Who Crashed to Earth
Author: Judd Winick
Publisher: Random House
Copyright & Publishing Date: 2015
Audience: Ages 8 - 12
Lexile: GN460L
Starred Reviews: Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (11/01/15), Kirkus Reviews (07/15/15), School Library Journal (08/01/15)
Summary: Ten year old DJ is just an ordinary boy who believes he is not good at anything when something extraordinary happens to him. Hilo crash lands on Earth without knowing what he is doing on on this planet. DJ befriends Hilo and DJ's adventure begins. Hilo begins to realize he is on Earth to fight dangerous bug robots and protect the planet from the evil robot Razorwark. Thus begins DJ's and Hilo's adventure.
Categories/Genre: Series, Middle Grade fiction, science fiction, graphic novel. The book, which is the first in a series of 9 books, is geared to elementary students. DJ is ten years old. It is a science fiction book because of the robots, space travel, and parallel dimensions. I included this book on the list because the series was read a lot by my students and my own children, but I never read the book before. Now I understand the popularity of the books with third graders.
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