FREE KEEPING THE MOON PDF Sarah Dessen | 228 pages | 19 Jul 2011 | Penguin Young Readers Group | 9780142401767 | English | New York, NY, United States Keeping the Moon read online free by Sarah Dessen Dessen Someone Like You,etc. Paulsen Keeping the Moon personal experiences that he incorporated into Hatchet and its three sequels, from savage attacks by moose and mosquitoes to watching helplessly as a heart-attack victim dies. The author adds incidents from his Iditarod races, describes how he made, then learned to hunt with, bow and Keeping the Moon, then closes with methods of cooking outdoors sans pots or pans. Well-meaning but far too accustomed to getting her way, Aunt Patty buys the children unwanted new clothes, enrolls them in a Bible day camp for one Keeping the Moon day, and even tries to line up friends for them. While politely tolerating her hovering, the two inseparable sisters find their own path, hooking up with a fearless, wonderfully plainspoken teenaged neighbor and her dirt-loving brothers, Keeping the Moon, acting on an obscure but ultimately healing impulse, climbing out onto the roof to get a bit closer to Heaven, and Baby. Lightening the tone by poking gentle fun at Patty and some of her small-town neighbors, the author creates a cast founded on likable, real-seeming people who grow and change in response to tragedy. Already have an account? Log in. Trouble signing in? Retrieve credentials. Sign Up. Pub Date: Sept. Page Count: Publisher: Viking. No Comments Yet. More by Sarah Dessen. Pub Date: Feb. Page Count: Publisher: Delacorte. More by Gary Paulsen. Keeping the Moon Date: Oct. Page Count: Publisher: Putnam. More by Audrey Couloumbis. Please sign up to continue. Almost there! Reader Writer Industry Professional. Send me weekly book recommendations and inside scoop. Keep me logged in. Sign in using your Kirkus account Sign in Keep me logged in. Need Help? Contact us: or email customercare kirkus. Please select an existing bookshelf OR Create a new bookshelf Continue. Keeping the Moon - Wikipedia Keeping the Moon is an award-winning novel by author Sarah Dessen. In this novel Nicole Sparks, who goes by the nickname Colie, goes to spend the summer with eccentric Aunt Mira in the small beach town of Colby. Colie's mother, Kiki Sparks, is a world-renowned fitness and nutrition guru that is touring Europe Keeping the Moon the summer to promote her programs and fitness products. The novel focuses on self-esteem issues that children go through when they are overweight or different from the other kids in their school. The novel also deals with the issue of bullying taking place in schools and among children, and how bullying and torment breaks down the self-esteem of children. The summer that Colie spends in Colie teaches her that she has always had what she needs inside of her to feel Keeping the Moon be a beautiful person; she just needed Keeping the Moon kind and understanding people to bring it out in her. Aunt Mira, which is Kiki's sister, is a very eccentric and overweight person. At first, Colie sees a lot of herself in Aunt Mira. The townspeople make fun of Mira, how she dresses and the fact that Mira helps some of the other townspeople that are in need, such as Norman. Keeping the Moon the end, Colie Keeping the Moon that Mira and Colie are nothing alike. Mira is and always has been comfortable with who she is and does not care what others think Keeping the Moon her. Colie, on the other hand, has not quite gotten to the point where she feels comfortable in her own skin. When Colie meets Isabel and Morgan, the two waitresses that work at the Last Chance grill in town, she learns what having girlfriends is like for the first time. The two girls help Colie to find herself and to share in things that girlfriends share. Colie also learns what it is like to like a boy and have him like her back, when she sees Norman as more than Keeping the Moon who helps her aunt and works as the cook Keeping the Moon the Last Chance. By the end of the novel, Colie has made a transformation from a caterpillar to a butterfly and feels right about herself for the first time. Read more from the Keeping the Moon Guide. Browse all BookRags Study Guides. Copyrights Keeping the Moon from BookRags. All rights reserved. Toggle navigation. Sign Up. Sign In. Get Keeping the Moon from Amazon. View the Study Pack. View the Lesson Plans. Order our Keeping the Moon Study Guide. Plot Summary. Chapters 1 and 2. Chapters 3 and 4. Chapters 5 and 6. Chapters 7 and 8. Chapters 9 and Chapters 11 and Chapters 13 and Chapter Free Quiz. Topics for Discussion. The Rest of the Story. Print Word PDF. This section contains words approx. Themes Style Quotes. View a FREE sample. More summaries and resources for teaching or studying Keeping the Moon. Keeping the Moon from BookRags. Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen If you are into sweet young love stories then this book is for you. The offbeat characters jump off of the page and into your heart. It's a story you Keeping the Moon forget overnight. This was the first Sarah Dessen book I ever read, and it got me hooked. I've read all of the ones by her that I can get my hands on. I didn't actually buy this Keeping the Moon from Wal-Mart, but was searching the site and came across this. I bought it at a privately owned bookstore before, but it is much cheaper here! Colie has never fit in. She has always struggled throughout her life to make friends and be confident about herself mostly because of her weight. Her mom was right there beside her, being overweight herself. During those "Fat Years," Colie used her weight as a shield against other people. When her mom looses the weight and becomes Kiki Sparks, a world class fitness trainer, Colie's whole life changes. Her mom is no longer always there right beside her. Instead she is spreading her message about weight loss and her own personal struggle. During the summer, Colie's mom embarks on a Keeping the Moon tour to promote her Keeping the Moon revolutionizing workout series leaving Colie behind with her eccentric Aunt Mira in Colby. She meets Isabel and Morgan who teach her to be brave, be bold, and always believe in yourself. Keeping the Moon thoroughly enjoyed this book, as I have enjoyed all of Dessan's books so far. The plot is engaging and the characters are very relatable. The relationship between Isabel and Morgan is funny Keeping the Moon read about because they are practically sisters which makes the book that much more interesting to read. I Keeping the Moon predict from the very beginning that Colie was not going to like visiting Colby, but by the end, I knew that she would miss leaving it. I thought that it was a little slow in the beginning, just because it mainly focused on Colie's arrival to her Aunt's house. It quickly got better though, and from there on I loved the book! Colie struggled a lot with her appearance and self confidence in this Keeping the Moon. Isabel and Morgan were two extremely important characters who Keeping the Moon Colie through it all. They played a huge role in the outcome of the book and how Colie turned out in the end. Colie started out admiring Isabel and Morgan, but as she progressed into a new person, she had some of those qualities for herself. Self confidence, strength, and perseverance don't always come easily, and Colie had to find that out the hard way. Sarah Dessen has written another fantastic romance story that grabs your attention and maintains it throughout the entire story with the descriptive details and lesson that everyone will learn through Colie. Nicole, a. Colie, has always been that fat girl in school with no friends and constantly being picked on. After her mother and her lost all their protective shield of fat, her mother becomes Kiki the one who invented a revolutionizing workout, building confidents and Keeping the Moon the fat. Her mother travels the world spreading this workout, but leaves her daughter with her Aunt Maria in Colby. Maria is the corky kind of aunt, the one you wouldn't want to go in public with because everyone starred at her as she passes and makes rude remarks under their breaths, but Maria doesn't care what people think of her. Norman is the artistic man that lives on the bottom floor of Maria house. However the two girls also help her gaining confidents and begin to love herself for who she really was, inside. Along the way she starts to fall for someone she would never accept herself too. As I began to read this I was trying to figure out what boy the main character, Colie, will fall in love with since the other books I read by Sarah Dessen have all started the dating in the beginning. However, this book was different. At the beginning I didn't get who she was going to fall for, I was in suspense, which made me want to read more until I found out. This book focuses Keeping the Moon teaching a real strong message about appearances and how they help someone or even tear someone down.