I borrowed this from my library on a whim, picked it out of the 10 audiobooks I currently have borrowed in my Libby app on a whim, and I'm so glad I did.

I am not the target audience. My desire to read novels about middle school bullying is practically non-existent. But, Jennifer Chan is Not Alone presents an interesting framework for the bullying: Jennifer Chan believed in aliens, and when she runs away, our main character Mal thinks that maybe she finally contacted them. Or got abducted. So she tries to find her, driven by her own guilt and fear. 

This novel is so painfully true to the pre-teen strangeness, fear, and desire to figure out where you fit in the world. It clearly involves a storyline about bullying, but I think approached it in a way that shows how and why bullying can happen on many levels. It shows the various effects that bullying can have on people. It shows girls doing their best to fit in, or not. It shows the growing pains of learning that the world is not small like it used to be, but huge and vast and though we are tiny beings in a big universe, we can still have monumental effects on those around us with our words and our actions.

I would highly, highly recommend this for its target age group. It's written deftly, it has a plot that pulls you along with the desire to find out what happened and why, and it weaves in pretty deep themes in a way that is easy to take in and process.