What Fell From the Sky

Texas author to release middle-grade sci-fi novel... based on a true story

Authors draw experience from real life to distill into their works. This is true for Kyle-based author Adrianna Cuevas, who based her high-interest middle grade on the real-life events in 1952 Lampasas when the army took over the whole town.

Combining fact with fiction, Cuevas tells the story of Pineda Matlage and his friends in the rural Texas town of Soledad. Pineda starts out just hoping to get through the school year, but class becomes disrupted when American soldiers descend upon the town, carrying out a training exercise that will take over everything from Pineda’s school to the local government.