Keeping the Moon (reissue) | 
|  | | | Title: | Keeping the Moon (reissue) | | Author: | Sarah Dessen | | Publisher: | Puffin | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 11 May, 2004 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0142401765 / 9780142401767 | | List Price: | $8.99 | | Amazon Price: | $8.99 | |
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Fifteen-year-old Colie is spending the summer with her eccentric Aunt Mira while her mother travels. Formerly chubby and still insecure, Colie has built a shell around herself. But her summer with her aunt, her aunt's tenant Norman, and her friends at the Last Chance Diner&150teaches her some important lessons about friendship and learning to love yourself.
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• Keeping The Moon Was Over The Moon! 25 September, 2008
Keeping The Moon by Sarah Dessen was a very interesting book. Colie Sparks is the main character and her famous mom, Kiki Sparks, is a weight loss trainer and inspiration for fat people. They used to be very fat and Colie was very unpopular, until her mom rear ended another car and the lady gave Colie's mom a job there! But then her mom goes touring in Europe and she has to go stay with her Aunt Mira in North Carolina where she still isn't very popular. There she meets Norman a boy she never thought she would like but in the end they like each other, and Isabel and Morgan two fellow waitresses at the "Last Chance" where Colie got a job. But in the end she is confident and is going out with Norman. This is a great book!! I thought how everything worked out was really interesting!!!
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• Laura's Book Review 01 May, 2008
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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• Second Favorite 06 August, 2008
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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• Keeping The Moon 28 June, 2008
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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