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    Moonpenny Island

    By Tricia Springstubb and Gilbert Ford

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    About this ebook

    Readers of Kate DiCamillo and Sheila Turnage will love Moonpenny Island, a middle grade novel of friendship and secrets by the beloved and acclaimed Tricia Springstubb.

    Moonpenny is a tiny island in a great lake. When the summer people leave and the ferries stop running, just the tried-and-true islanders are left behind. Flor and her best, her perfect friend, Sylvie, are the only eleven-year-olds for miles and miles—and Flor couldn’t be happier. But come the end of summer, unthinkable things begin to happen. Sylvie is suddenly, mysteriously, whisked away to school on the mainland. Flor’s mother leaves to take care of Flor’s sick grandmother and doesn’t come back. Her big sister has a secret, and Flor fears it’s a dangerous one.

    Meanwhile, a geologist and his peculiar daughter arrive to excavate prehistoric trilobites, one of the first creatures to develop sight. Soon Flor is helping them. As her own ability to see her life on this little lump of limestone evolves, she faces truths about those she loves—and about herself—she never imagined.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateFeb 10, 2015
    ISBN9780062112958
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    Moonpenny Island
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    Tricia Springstubb

    Tricia Springstubb is the author of the acclaimed middle grade novels What Happened on Fox Street and Mo Wren, Lost and Found as well as the picture book Phoebe & Digger. The mother of three grown daughters, she lives with her husband and cats in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. You can visit her online at www.triciaspringstubb.com.

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    • 1/5
      I almost put this one down because I wasn't enjoying it, but did pick it back up and finish. thought the story and characters were boring. The setting was interesting, but that was about it for me. I don't think students will stick with this book.
    • 3/5
      Good growing up book, and good island life book. All kinds of friendships and family dynamics happening. All kinds of acceptance and secrets to navigate. Delightful.

      Advanced Reader's Copy provided by Edelweiss.
    • 3/5
      children's middlegrade realistic fiction (quiet community on a small island; best/only friend moves away; 11-year-old's world gets a little bit bigger and a lot more complicated). I didn't like these characters as much as I liked Springstubb's Wren family and friends, but I did appreciate that she included a girl with one arm (ABS birth defect). I didn't buy into the story that much and had trouble with 11-year-old Flor's voice (choppy partial sentences--it suited her character, but I just had to re-read some of the sentences).