Cattail Moon (Avon Flare Book)

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Summary: An awesome book-especially if you are a musician
Review: Cattail Moon was really great! It had just the right mix of mystery, sadness, happiness, friendship, and love. As a musician, I could relate to Julia very well. It did scare me a little, that maybe one day my music dreams would present a hard decision. But there are not many music books out there, so I enjoyed reading this one. I also loved the fact that it encouraged individuality. This was a terrific book for anyone to read, but I especially recommend it to musicians.

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Summary: Other side of the moon
Review: I found this book left me hanging on what was really important in my life. I read it while I was staying in a cabin on vacation and found myself drifting out the door to the old rope swing where I literally just sat and swang, my mind in a drifting state. After that, it was one am, I sat on a rock and sort of layed out all the important things in my life in my head and straighted them all out. It really helped me see my choices and unclutter what I had.
The story had it's bizarre moments, when I thought, 'okay, that didn't really happen.' but it had, overall, a surreal effect that cleared away my muddled mind

Rating:
Summary: Other side of the moon
Review: I found this book left me hanging on what was really important in my life. I read it while I was staying in a cabin on vacation and found myself drifting out the door to the old rope swing where I literally just sat and swang, my mind in a drifting state. After that, it was one am, I sat on a rock and sort of layed out all the important things in my life in my head and straighted them all out. It really helped me see my choices and unclutter what I had.
The story had it's bizarre moments, when I thought, 'okay, that didn't really happen.' but it had, overall, a surreal effect that cleared away my muddled mind

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Summary: An enchanting tale of First Love
Review: I read this book in one day, it was the kind of story that isn't too long and isn't too short, also it isn't very complex so it can be absorbed in one sitting.
The story is about Julia, who is this not pretty but not ugly fourteen year old. Her mother is the type who is pretty, skinny, perfect, is married to a lawyer and has all the right friends.
Julia is the opposite of her mother, she loves the thrill of playing the piano in front of an audience, she prays for an opera voice, and loves to hang out with her fellow musician friends at her Seattle high school.
Well her mother has different plans, she nags and nags about her daughter dressing dowdy, having ugly hair, not wearing the right make up for her skin tone, and she hates the fact that her daughter wants to be a musician- -because in her mother's mind 'no one ever got anywhere playing the piano, unless they were one of the crude rock 'n roll stars'.
Julia just can't take it anymore, so, she calls her father who lives in the Rural Moon Valley and talkes to her stepfather-who by the way adores her-and they decide that she should spend the school semester in Moon Valley.
Her mother is furious, but she goes, at first everything is so off, her grandmother is a hermit-but a nice one-her dad is always working on his hand moade cabinet buisness, and she keeps seeing this girl in the marsh who runs every time Julia tries to talk to her.
Slowly as the year presses on she makes some girl friends, gains an enemy named Tammy, and falls in love with this beautiful boy with sapphire eyes and unruly auburn hair.
The boy who's name is Luke, seems to know something about this mysterious girl, but he's not talking, everyone in town says she's a ghost? But there's no such things as ghosts right?
Through lonliness, defending herself against her nagging mother and the vengeful Tammy, falling in love with Luke and meeting the mysterious lady in white of the marsh Julia searches for solid ground and a way to get what her heart desires. A good book, I reccomend it to Christian teenage girls looking for a story that teaches morals and how to deal with life and problems the right way.
BRANDY.J