Keeping the Moon

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Summary: Sweet book by a sweet author
Review: A good summer read.....

I orderd this book last summer off of here at Amazon. It was a perfect book cuz the story is set in the summertime...This book is good for 2 things (1) Is it's not a long book its only about 228 pages long,and (2) Its an easy read, I'm not saying that as in the author is not intelligent in fact I think she also worte Someone Like You(never read it,heard it was good)Keeping the Moon is about a girl who spends a summer with a "one of a kind aunt", finds summer love,two great friends who showes her who she is, to like herself for who she is,and to stand up to others who can bring her down. Now this book dose have a downfall.To me it did not start getting interesting until chapter 6 or 7. The first 5 chapters are not boring there just A little slow.I will probabley read this book again... Maybe next summer.

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Summary: it was a great pick-me-up!
Review: I can honestly say this was one of the best books I've EVER read. I was feeling pretty lousy about myself at the time I read it, but when I was done I realized that it wasn't what people thought of me that made the biggest difference-it was what I thought of myself. I realated to Collie at such a great length even though I wasn't going through the same experiences as her. If you're going through a hard time READ THIS BOOK!

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Summary: Julia: one great summer
Review: When Colie comes to North Carolina to live with her Aunt Mira for the summer, because her mother, Kiki Sparks, exercise finatic, goes to Europe to tour, Colie thinks it is going to be the same in North Carolina as in her home town, but she has no clue. Colie starts a new life. She ditches her black clothes and horrible reputation to find her true self. This book is beautifully written! Colie thinks her past will haunt her forever but she is simply surprised. Morgan and Isabl, Colie's first true friends, help her to see who she really is. Sure they have rough spots but they "survive." I have to say this book is supurb. I recommend this book to people 12 & up because it deals with more complex problems and words that children may not be yet know.

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Summary: Everyone has a Beauty Waiting to be Seen
Review: Fifteen year old Colie believes she is going to have to spend the worst, most depressing summer of her life at her spontaneous, fairly odd Aunt Mira's house while her mother tours Europe doing her weightloss aerobics. How wrong was she.
Colie and her mother Kiki have recently lost very much weight after being teased and taunted by , in my opinion, the worthless souls around them. Those memories haunt her day after day, even while she is fifty pounds lighter and spending a summer at her Aunt Mira's house. She meets unforgettable friends, Isabelle, Morgan, and Norman. They, even without knowing it themselves, touch her heart more than she could eve
r imagine.
This novel was deep and really casued me to think. I believe Sarah Dessen is now my favorite author, and I highly reccomend this to any girl who has not completely found herself. I enjoyed this book very much and I hope you will too!

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Summary: "The Greatest Love Comes From Within"
Review: Nicole Sparks, better known as Colie, is not looking forward to spending the summer with her mother's only sister in Colby, North Carolina. Her mother has developed a line of weight loss products and videos and must go to Europe for the summer to promote them. Colie shows up at Aunt Mira's as an insecure, defiant girl who needs to find her way. She makes friends with two older girls who live next door. They get her a job as a waitress in the local café where they both work. She also meets a young, art student who happens to live in her aunt's basement. A wonderful romance blossoms with Norman and the summer that she dreaded turns out to be the best summer of her life. Her new friends help her to look within to find her real strength and identity. Colie finds her own identity and her life will never be the same as a result of this wonderful summer. This would be a great book for students in the 7th through 12th grade. Teachers could use this book to study science, language arts, music, and art, along with relationships focusing on friendship and self esteem.

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Summary: keeping the moon
Review: This book by Sarah Dessen shows a girl named Nicole "Colie" who has never really gotten over the fact of being overweight. This summer she has to go live with her aunt Mira while her mom goes on a world tour for exercising. She never felt liked she fit in in the world. Until Isabel, Morgan, and Norman help her find out that she really was beautiful. On this summer quest of finding herself I would reccomend this book again and again to anyone who hasn't completely found themselves.

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Summary: Stunningly realistic
Review: I'm a big fan of Sarah dessen's books. keeping the moon is one of my favorites. I loved all the characters, especially Colie's spunky friends Isabel. I read some of the critic's reviews, and some said it was predictable. Now that I think about it, maybe it was sort of an overused plot, but I didn't notice that while reading it. The story was so realistic. I saw myself in Colie, and by the time I finished the book, it wasn't just her who discovered the secret to true beauty and confidence.

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Summary: Not her best book, and hopefully her worst
Review: After I finished reading this book, I found I really didn't like it. The narrator is kind of boring and whiney. The secondary characters however, are a lot stronger than the main character. Isabel, the pretty waitress, is one of Sarah Dessen's best characters ever. She has great lines, a great personality, and is really well drawn. You could picture her character as a real person; she isn't cliched.
The story, especially for a Sarah Dessen novel, is extremely ordinary and obvious. It's been done ten thousand times over. I like Sarah Dessen's books because most of the time they have unusual storylines. This one is just the typical "former fat girl has low self-esteem but learns that loving who you are is true beauty" plot. It also had the typical "father and son don't get along because the son won't go into the family business" storyline with Norman. This book might still have had a chance to be saved if not for the extremely predictable ending where Colie realizes she's fallen for Norman.
The best part of this book is the "Chick Night". It has great descriptions and is really fun and believable (aside from the cheesy part where they dance around singing "I Will Survive").
Sarah Dessen became my favorite author because she didn't write typical young adult books like this one. She favors an unusual story and memorable characters, and writes great depictions. This book, however, while it has awesome description, is strongly lacking in the other areas.

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Summary: Teenage Emotions and Problems
Review: "Keeping the Moon" (an ALA Best Book for Young Adults by Sarah Dessen) is an epic novel that describes teen emotion to an almost uncanny perspective. With its perils, discoveries, and joys, this book could very well be compared to Laurie Halse Anderson's "Speak" and Madeleine L'Engle's "A Ring of Endless Light" (two other teen based novels).
Sarah Dessen was born in 1970 in Illinois, but spent most of her childhood in Chapel Hill, N.C. She has one brother, and both of her parents were professors at the University of North Carolina. Some other books she's written are "That Summer," "Someone Like You," "Dreamland," and "This Lullaby: A Novel."
Not only did Dessen create an emotional connection with teenagers in "Keeping the Moon," but she also established well thought characters, like Nicole "Colie" Sparks (the main character of the story who not only has to overcome physical boundaries, but emotional boundaries as well). Another thing she tried to do was to relate to teenage problems and situations, like Colie's hidden fear that she would always be labeled as "easy" and that she would never find any type of love or friendship.
I would strongly recommend this inspirational story to the age demographic of teenagers (12-18), because they probably could relate to this book very well, and they most like could understand what Colie is going through. And hopefully this book might help teenagers deal with any insecurities and issues they may have.

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Summary: Beautiful!
Review: Keeping the Moon is simply magnificent. Colie Sparks, daughter of the famed fitness guru Kiki Sparks, is sent to spend her summer with her aunt Mira. At first, Colie is horrified by her aunt, her neighbor Norman, and the two waitress friends Isabel and Morgan. They all seem so different from the person Colie wants to be. Like all of Sarah Dessen's books, Keeping the Moon is about growing up. But it's more than that, really, and it's more than the simple romance some might think. It's inspirational. It's about finding that strength within you and having confidence in yourself and in others. It's about learning that what people you don't like think about you really doesn't matter. Naturally, Colie ends up with, while maybe not the guy of her dreams, someone who understands her and respects her for who is was, is, and will be. The characters are wonderful. Colie is about as insecure as every girl feels at some time. She's scared, lonely, and unsure of even herself. Norman is quirky, funny, and imaginative. Morgan and Isabel are examples of the best friend we all wish for, radiating self-confidence, comraderie, and love. This book is a perfect example of the saying "short but sweet"!