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Summary: I'm keeping this moon
Review: "Keeping the Moon" is simple yet it stirs some serious thinking about how we live our lives.
Colie Sparks, former fat girl, fifteen years old, has no friends and is ridiculed at school. At least now it's Summer.
She is being sent to live with her oddbird Aunt Mira for the summer so her weigh loss guru of a mother can tour the world for her cause.
Mira lives near a beach, and Colie meets Norman, Morgan, Isabel, and other townsfolk(not all so nice) of the small beach community. Colie decides to spend her summer waitressing with the two girls, and they befriend her. They are a few years older and wiser, and teach her valuable lessons that she'll always have with her. She gets a birds' eye view of how friendships work.
Being the cynic she has become (and you'll learn why as you read about her classmates), she is not so easy to trust and let others in. The petals of the flower known as "Colie" open up and she blossoms into a more self assured individual as the story of her summer away from home progresses.
Believe in one's self and everything else will fall into place is the underlying theme of Sarah Dessen's well crafted novel. I read this in two days!! And I'm not a teenager nor a YA. I am 34, and a teen at heart. I think and feel many of the same feelings that Colie does through this book. I did back when I was 15, and I could relate so well to her.
It's a quick read, highly entertaining, and rouses up something in all of us - wanting to be better and feeling good about ourselves.
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Summary: Surprisingly Enjoyable
Review: 15-year-old Colie Sparks thinks that her life is basically nothing going nowhere. Her mother, a world-famous fitness instructor, is going to Europe to spread her fitness gospel, and Colie is spending the summer with her Aunt Mira in a sleepy North Carolina town, Colby. Armed with an attitude and a "punk" look, Colie attempts hate everything about Colby but finds it hard to stick with this resolution. Her aunt's uncompromising eccentric ways grow on her and Colie's new friends (Morgan, Norman, and Isabel) slowly convince her that she really is a worthwhile person. Ultimately, Colie learns many lessons about dealing with the past, gaining self-confidence, and becoming a person you can be proud of. "Keeping the Moon" may seem like a typical teenage girl book in some ways, but it generally manages to have more "heart" and depth than typical "teenybopper" books. While (as many have commented) the book appears to be little more than a Cinderella story to the casual observer, readers will probably parts of themselves in the reclusive, skeptical Colie and empathize with her. Colie's "transformation" is not too quick to be believable, and is very inspiring and motivating to the average reader. Furthermore, if you read at all carefully, you will find many pieces of wisdom spoken by secondary characters. Told with sensitivity and skill, "Keeping the Moon" is an excellent example of a "light" book with an important message.
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Summary: I love this book!
Review: Keeping the Moon, by Sarah Dessen is one of the best books I have ever read! I'm sure almost everyone can relate to Colie and her feelings of being an outsider. This book was so encouraging to read, because it shows that if you just be yourself, lip ring and all, people will like you for that, and if they don't, they aren't worth it.
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Summary: Keeping the Moon
Review: This book was absolutely the best that I have read in a very long time. It's a book about teen struggle and self discovery. I'd have to admit though, the beginnng was kind of weird. I had to read it over again to understand what was happening. The rest of the book was very interesting and i was so engrossed in this book. I couldnt put it down. I recommend this book to all teenage girls.
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Summary: keeping the moon
Review: When i read the book i thought it was really boring, i couldn't wait til i was done with it so i could move on. It was a book a lot of girls could relate to, but i thought it was poorly written.
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Summary: keeping the moon...
Review: I absoluty hated the beginning of this book. It probably took me 3 days to start it. But once I got into it I loved it! It was a really good book, and I LOVE Sarah Dessen. I've read most of her other books, and loved them too! This is a great read, besides the bad beginning!
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Summary: Keeping Out of Boredom
Review: I'd been wanting this book for sometime and , I wasn't disappointed. Although the storyline is expected(miserable teen girl gets friends and becomes happy), the way the story is told makes all the differnce. Random snippets of her past are given in order to understand her trauma today.
You should buy this book and read it too.
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Summary: I loved it!
Review: I really enjoyed "Keeping the Moon." Colie is a very real character. She can be whiney. She can be selfish. There are times when you want to scream at her! But it doesn't mean she's a terrible character. These faults make Colie more real. In fact, there are things that you will dislike about each character. Morgan is blind when it comes to her scum of a fiancee, Mark. Isabell is pushy and rude (but very honest). Mira is charmingly eclectic but her totally broken down house is in desperate need of fixing. And Norman? There's not much wrong with Norman. I like the small, humorus touches Ms. Dessen adds to the book. Bea Williamson's big-headed baby cracks me up every time. Norman's infatuation with sunglasses is cute. And I love that Mira watches wrestling, it's very funny! All in all, "Keeping the Moon" is funny, sweet, and a must-read!
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Summary: Keeping The Moon
Review: "Keeping The Moon" was one of the best books I have read so far. I really thought it was something most all teen girls could not only enjoy, but relate to. This book is funny,happy,and in some parts really sad. The main character Colie, is a girl with little self confidence, and no friends. That all changes after spending one summer with her Aunt Mira. Colie meets three people (Isabel,Morgan,and Norman) who change her whole perspective on herself,and life in general. I highly recommend this book to teen girls everywhere. You won't regret reading it :0)
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Summary: A New Look At Self Discovery
Review: Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen takes a look at how the summer of a newly thin, social outcast can change her perspective on all of the things around her and herself. Colby, North Carolina is not paradise 15-year-old Nicole "Colie" Sparks would like to be in, though in her home of Charlotte she doesn't have many friends. She has spent the last three years being the victim of rumors and harassment.
When Colie's mom and queen of fitness, Kiki Sparks, goes on a trip to Europe for the summer Colie is sent to Colby to spend the summer with her aunt Mira who is very overweight. Soon she becomes more at home when she lands at job at a local restaurant, The Last Chance Bar and Grill where she makes friends with her co-workers, Isabel and Morgan. Colie also meets Norman, who's personality first... Colie out, then better interests her. Colie faces manly obstacles dealing with herself. When Colie first moved to Charlotte both her and her mother were poor and fat, until her mom accidentally got a job at a fitness center. Soon Colie and her mom were skinny and wealthy from her mom's overnight stardom, but nothing made the torture stop. This summer is her chance to get away from that until she realizes that she never escapes it. Isabel and Morgan noticed this flaw and help to make her realize her beauty inside and out. As the summer ends, she leaves with a piece of herself intact, her self-respect and self-esteem. This summer would last in memories and the lessons it had taught.
I would recommend this book to anyone that suffers from self-esteem problems or that trouble understanding the problems. I think that because you get so into the world of Colie and her image problems, you start to understand how beautiful people can feel so ugly. It also shows how they can raise themselves to overcome that self doubt and see the beauty in their selves.
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