The Revolving Boy

Stacey read this when she was younger, and found it at the library. When she was done, I read it.

It was a quick Sci-Fi novel about a boy who somehow is aligned with a distant planet that is broadcasting signals to earth (although he doesn't know what is is aligned to). No matter where he is, how he is turned, or what he does, he knows the direction of things, and can find the signal.

It's not quite logically consistent. Why does knowing the direction of a radio signal give you the ability to know how to point to Taiwan through the Earth?

What bugged me most was how the novel was unresolved. At the end, they figure out why he is leaning that way, and what the signal is (it's a signal from a distant planet), but they don't actually make any contact.

I just felt it didn't wrap things up nicely. It felt unfinished, like there should be an entire part III that dealt with making contact.

But it was still kind of fun - definitely an interesting idea even if there are unresolved pieces.