Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool is this year's Newbery award winner and rightfully so - it is a wonderful historical fiction novel narrated by 12-year-old Abilene who has been sent to her father's hometown, Manifest, Kansas, for the summer during the Great Depression. A mystery and flashbacks take her back to her father's childhood, growing up in 1918.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Moon Over Manifest
Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool is this year's Newbery award winner and rightfully so - it is a wonderful historical fiction novel narrated by 12-year-old Abilene who has been sent to her father's hometown, Manifest, Kansas, for the summer during the Great Depression. A mystery and flashbacks take her back to her father's childhood, growing up in 1918.
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