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Title: Keeping the Moon (reissue)
ISBN: 0142401765
Author:
Sarah Dessen
Publicate Date: 2004-05-11
Publish: 2004-05-11
List Price: $8.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Paperback
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1: second favorite
This book is my second favorite of all of Sarah Dessen's novels. It has a great plot, one which I wouldn't have thought of in a million years, but since then has made me want to spend summers away from home. It was wonderful, and I really suggest reading it.
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2: Keeping the Moon
Colie Sparks is formerly fat, having gone through a recent transition leaving her 45 pounds lighter but still burdened by the problems most girls, even those who are overweight, commonly face. Colie, however, having lost the protective weight of those 45 pounds, is left with no way to deal with the aftermath of becoming thin and having to put up a whole different kind of insult. After an innocent meeting with a boy is labeled something else, Colie -- if no longer fat -- is now a slut instead. After years of curling up on herself inside her weight she becomes her school's pariah, suffering through without friends, her only acquaintances more likely to hurl insults at her than anything else.
This all begins to change when she goes to the beach for the summer, staying with her overweight and eccentric aunt who doesn't appear to care that she's ostracized from her own community. With her summer come three friends: Norman, an art student forced to live with Mira when his father doesn't want him, and Morgan and Isabel, two waitresses with problems of their own. Between them all Colie begins to realize her own self-worth, so much more than being skin deep.
The old lessons on self-esteem and beauty seem to go a lot further in this book, carried on by the bright and interesting characters, with Mira standing in as an explanation that Colie never had to be thin to be happy or surrounded by friends. A very heartwarming read.
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3: Worth it
Before I read this book, I lent it to a friend with a similar taste in books. She returned it after attempting to read it many times with the reason that it bored her. When i read the book, it did seem to drag on at some parts, but it is a very good story that shows one teenagers change in appearance and attitude.
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4: laura's book review
The book Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen is a great book. It is about a girl named Collie. Collie used to be big, but then she got skinny because her mom got a new lifestyle and her mom got a new job in a fitness place. The book starts with her going to live with her Aunt Maria for the summer while her mom is on her worldwide fitness tour. Two weeks later she gets a job in a restaurant named "Last Chance, Bar and Grill" where she meets her two best friends, Morgan and Isabel. They help her change her reputation and image to a better one.
This book is for teenage girls who like books that have a cause and effect meaning to their books. This book has average problems that girls go through in their teenage years. In conclusion, the book Keeping the Moon is a great book that is meant for teenager girls.
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5: Learning to be strong
At 15, Colie Sparks is angry at the world. Recently having become slim -- largely due to the efforts of her world-famous fitness guru mom -- Colie still doesn't believe she's physically attractive. How can she, when the girls at school are constantly bullying her, spreading lies about her promiscuity and laughing in her face?
When Colie's mom leaves her at her aunt Mira's for the summer, Colie's half angry at being left and half glad at a chance to reinvent herself. Within days, she's got a waitressing job with her aunt's young boarder Norman and two neighbors, Morgan and Isabel. Whenever she's around the three, Colie finds herself unexpectedly doing and learning new things.
It isn't easy, though -- Colie is painfully aware of the small town's mocking her overweight, eccentric aunt, even though Mira doesn't seem to know or care. She's also dealing with countless demons from her past.
Yet with the support of her new friends, Colie's determined to make a new future for herself.
Despite the potential to lapse into happily-ever-after land, Dessen does a great job creating quirky, realistic characters who strive for happiness, but in no way get sappy or unrelatable.
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