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Moon Over Manifest - Community Reviews back

by Clare Vanderpool
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So Many Books, So Little Time
So Many Books, So Little Time rated it 14 years ago
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...
julieharrison
julieharrison rated it 14 years ago
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...
megancsparks
megancsparks rated it 14 years ago
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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