Description This creative guide to rural communities is told from a unique perspective--an alien learning about how people live on Earth! This illustrated narrator takes readers on a journey to the countryside to learn all about what life there is really like. As this new friend finds out what kinds of homes people live in, how they get around, and other basic facts about life in the country, young readers enhance their understanding of elementary social studies concepts. Even reluctant readers are sure to have fun following along with the cool facts and checking out the impressive illustrations and photographs