Stargazing is a heartwarming middle-grade graphic novel in the spirit of Real Friends and El Deafo, from New York Times bestselling author-illustrator Jen Wang.

Moon is everything Christine isn’t. She’s confident, impulsive, artistic . . . and though they both grew up in the same Chinese-American suburb, Moon is somehow unlike anyone Christine has ever known.

In Stargazing, Moon moves in next door, leading to a relationship where these unlikely friends are soon best friends, sharing their favorite music videos and painting their toenails when Christine’s strict parents aren’t around. Moon even tells Christine her deepest secret: that she has visions, sometimes, of celestial beings who speak to her from the stars. Who can reassure her that earth isn’t where she really belongs.

With Stargazing of the greatest relationships, there is much to find in the similarities of Moon’s visions have an all-too-earthly root, versus Christine’s battle with having a best friend is in the hospital, fighting for her life. Can Christine be the friend Moon needs, now, when the sky is falling?

In Stargazing, author Jen Wang draws on her childhood to paint a deeply personal yet wholly relatable friendship story that’s at turns joyful, heart-wrenching, and full of hope.