Illustrated in black-and-white. Eight-year-old Harriet Butler is not really lonely--her housekeeper is a hoot and her dad"s awfully nice--but she lost her mom when she was little. The last thing Harriet expects is to meet a space alien on vacation from another planet! But one morning Wiz (as she names him) appears in her father"s wheat field disguised as a hare. Proving to be a wonderful friend, Wiz turns Harriet"s summer into one that"s truly memorable.