Satellite Love by Genki Ferguson (grades 7-9)

Set in 1999, Satellite Love tells the story of 16-year-old Anna Obata, a lonely, bullied girl who lives in Japan. Between her troubled school days and having to care for her elder, invalid grandfather, Anna's only solace and comfort is looking up at the night sky each night to watch the stars thorugh her telescope. Everything changes when, one day, a Low Earth Orbit satellite (LEO) looks back and decides to descend to earth.

Genki Ferguson was born in New Brunswick, but grew up in both Calgary and Kyushu, Japan. In 2017, he won the 2017 Helen Pitt Award from the University of Victoria. Satellite Love was long-listed for CBC's Canada Reads competition, appeared on Daily Hive's "10 Essential Reads to Celebrate Asian Canadian Writers", and was one of Quill and Quire's best booksellers' Books of the Year.