Hello, Universe

Virgil Salinas is shy and misunderstood. Valencia Somerset is clever and stubborn. Kari Tanaka tells fortunes and can read the stars. Chet Bullens is the biggest bully in the neighborhood.

They aren't friends. They're practically strangers. But when Chet pulls an unthinkable prank on Virgil and his pet guinea pig, Gulliver, these four middle-schoolers are thrown together in surprising ways.