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Moon over Manifest

Author

Vanderpool, Clare.

Title

Moon over Manifest / Clare Vanderpool.

Format

Book

Edition

1st ed.

Published

New York : Delacorte Press, c2010.

Description

viii, 351 p. ; 22 cm.

Notes

"A Junior Library Guild selection"--Jkt. flap. Includes bibliographical references. I-UNIVLIB copy 2-3: Curriculum Resource Materials.

Summary

Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past. Over the summer she pieces together his story. Having heard stories about Manifest, Abilene is disappointed to find that it's just a dried-up, worn-out old town. But her disappointment quickly turns to excitement when she discovers a hidden cigar box full of mementos, including some old letters that mention a spy known as the Rattler. These mysterious letters send Abilene and her new friends, Lettie and Ruthanne, on an honest-to-goodness spy hunt, even though they are warned to "Leave Well Enough Alone." Abilene throws all caution aside when she heads down the mysterious Path to Perdition to pay a debt to the reclusive Miss Sadie, a diviner who only tells stories from the past. It seems that Manifest's history is full of colorful and shadowy characters--and long-held secrets. The more Abilene hears, the more determined she is to learn just what role her father played in that history. And as Manifest's secrets are laid bare one by one, Abilene begins to weave her own story into the fabric of the town. Powerful in its simplicity and rich in historical detail, Clare Vanderpool's debut is a gripping story of loss and redemption.

Target audience

009-013.

Awards

A Junior Library Guild selection Newbery Medal, 2011

Subject headings

Depressions--1929--Juvenile fiction. Secrecy--Juvenile fiction. Fathers--Juvenile fiction. Kansas--Juvenile fiction.

Genre heading

Young adult fiction.

ISBN

9780385738835 (hc) 0385738838 (hc) 9780375896163 (e-book) 0375896163 (e-book) 9780385907507 (glb) 0385907508 (glb)