Moon Over Manifest, by Clare Vanderpool
Ranked #3,954 in Books, Poetry & Writing, #147,806 overall
Moon Over Manifest, the 2011 Newbery Medal winner, is an awesome book ... I'm so glad I read it!
I didn't actually "read" Moon Over Manifest - I listened to it thanks to an Audible.Com audiobook download... but I raced through it because this book is big on personality, flavored with details, and absolutely intriguing from the very start.
The main character, Abilene, a precocious drifter-girl, jumps off a train because she wants to walk into town and check things out rather than be met at the station by a stranger. It was important to her to see the town on her own, on her own terms, before having her feelings about it clouded by someone else's opinions.
This poor child is being sent to Manifest, a small town, to live in the 1930's. Her father may or may not be joining her there later. She really doesn't know and though she's quite comfortable with her new guardian and friends, she misses her father terribly and tries to cope with needing to hear things about him and have that connection to the life she'd been leading up until that year.
Moon Over Manifest
Moon Over Manifest
Amazon Price: $4.48 (as of 06/03/2012)
Read the story of Abilene, a girl who grew up with a drifter for a father after her mother abandoned them. Now she's been sent to live with an elderly guardian in a small town called Manifest. Whatever will she find to do?
The layers in Moon Over Manifest
...awesome job of enriching this book with depth!
The depth of Moon Over Manifest was the juxtaposition of Abilene in the 1930's and the history of the town of Manifest which she desired to recover and understand. The text includes old letters, newspaper articles, and stories told by a strange psychic.
These layers bring mysteries to light and deepen our need to experience and finish the book. The only other book I've read that does this as well is Holes, by Louis Sachar
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