Moon Over Manifest
The movement of the train rocked me like a lullaby. I closed my eyes to the dusty countryside and imagined the sign I’d seen only in Gideon’s stories: Manifest—A Town with a rich past and a bright future.Abilene Tucker feels abandoned. Her father has put her on a train, sending her off to live...
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The movement of the train rocked me like a lullaby. I closed my eyes to the dusty countryside and imagined the sign I’d seen only in Gideon’s stories: Manifest—A Town with a rich past and a bright future.Abilene Tucker feels abandoned. Her father has put her on a train, sending her off to live with an old friend for the summer while he works a railroad job. Armed only with
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Format: Audio CD
ISBN:
9780307941930 (0307941930)
Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)
Pages no: 8
Edition language: English
This is one of the better Newbery books I've read in recent years. I feel like the selections now seem to focus a lot on being politically correct as opposed to good stories that instill a love of reading in children. The story within a story drew me in, and I found the characters both realistic and...
Another Newberry down. Well worthy of the award too. I think this might be my favorite one so far, even if it felt a little long. It's interesting to see that most of the winner's are historical fiction, which I don't read a whole lot of. But, I'm enjoying them and looking forward to reading more of...
I didn't realize that this was a children's book and that it won the Newberry award. I can see why it got it. I got the audio version of this book. As I was listening I kept thinking to myself, "Oh this is a 4 star book." But the ending (not a spoiler) cinched it for me and made it a 5 star book for...
I really wanted to like this book. I really hoped I would like this book. Despite the fact that it had never really interested me much, it won the Newbery. So I thought when I read it for my book club, I may have found myself happily exposed to a great book that I never would have picked up otherwis...
It has a been a long, long time since I have read a book that made me laugh out loud one minute, and then crying the next.
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