Beegu

Beegu
By: Alexis Deacon
Free choice

Beegu is from another planet but her spaceship crashes on Earth. The lost alien starts to look for some friends but all the adults turn her away. Then she finds a park and starts to play with the little children who become her friends. Her parents finally arrive to rescue her and she tells them all about the small creatures who were friendly and full of hope.

This would be a good book to talk about friendship and acceptance. It is also another good book to use with creative writing. The students could write about what they think they would experience if they landed on a foreign planet and how the other creatures on that planet would treat them.