E.T., the extra-terrestrial, in his adventure on earth : a novel

What do you do when youre lost, millions of miles from home, surrounded by frightening creatures? You do what the Old Botanist did when he was accidentally left behind on Earth. First you find a friend . . . Filmmaker STEVEN SPIELBERG and novelist WILLIAM KOTZWINKLE together create a magical story about two unforgettable friends: a gentle being from another world who is stranded on Earth, hunted, afraid and alone . . . and a ten-year-old boy who finds him and takes him home. The gentle extraterrestrial's return to his home planet discloses that he has fallen out of favor with his colleagues, who try to prevent his journey back to Earth to provide spiritual guidance for his young friend Elliott. An angelic alien being, left stranded by his extra-galactic mother ship, receives aid from a ten-year-old and his siblings to escape from Earth A boy discovers an extraterrestrial botanist in his mother's vegetable patch, and helps him return to his planet, 3 million light years away "Catch it! Maintain contact!" Interceptor jets had scrambled and were laying plumes of exhaust on the horizon as they streaked upward.