Everyone that reads my blog/reviews regularly knows that this is not the type of book I usually read. But I've been wanting to read more award winners, and though this book has not won an award yet, the author has won a Newbery for her other book. This was her second novel, and I found the blurb fa...
This book was something borrowed, something sky blue. The story, I felt has been done before, and the "mysterious" connections were quickly identified early before the second chapter. I did not understand particularly why it was a Newberry Winner, and while the story was a combination of many "stori...
Although I like this book, I agree with some of the feedback that I am confused by the "classication" of juvenile literature that this book has been slotted into. IMHO, I think an adolescent would have a really difficult time with this book. I wonder if a better genre wouldn't simply be historical f...
I looked at the reviews, which was probably a mistake, before I started writing this review. I enjoyed this book, though I figured out one of the central mysteries pretty quickly. I think that's a choice that the author made, to make it kind of obvious, but that's alright, as it made the interlockin...
Nice storytelling, enjoyable historical details, a spunky girl character, and a fun (though pretty minor) mystery. I liked how prejudices were addressed, and I thought the ending was sweet. I've read some other Newbery contenders and see this being about equal to them in my mind, in terms of both wr...
Moon Over Manifest is a story I think I would have enjoyed more as a child; I could feel my younger self identifying with the tomboyish protagonist, the people of the town as they're described in the story, and the history, as it related to what I was learning in Social Studies. As an adult, I can s...
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