Saturday, July 16, 2011

Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool

Here's another "Wow" !  Moon Over Manifest, Vanderpool's very first novel,  won the 2011 Newberry Award-ALA's best book for children-not bad for a new writer!!  I love the story within a story- set both in the Depression and WWI.  Manifest has wonderful, eccentric, well developed characters.  This was the perfect book for me to read while in the hammock...


Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.

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