Good Moon Rising

by Nancy Garden

Book Overview

Lambda Literary Award winner Good Moon Rising is about two young women who fall in love while rehearsing a school play, realize they're gay, and resist a homophobic campaign against them. Good Moon... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374327467
• ISBN13: 9780374327460
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Beautiful.

I checked Good Moon Rising out from my library yesterday. It took me less than 3 hours to read, I found it was impossible to put down. Jan and Kerry are believable, well-characterized girls. Some of the best aspects of this book were: the other students' reactions once a relationship between the girls was suspected, Kerry's uncertainty about moving away to make things easier, and the involvement of the Crucible and Mrs. Nicholson providing another part of the plot line. Their romance is true to life, and touching. The situations and harrassment that occurs are also very believable. One thing I think Nancy Garden could have done better would have been to describe their evolving platonic relationship, before the night at the movies. It seemed to be that their love came about abruptly, when a bit of unexplained time has, in fact, elapsed. Good Moon Rising is, nonetheless, an amazing book. I would reccomend this to anyone- straight, lesbian, gay, or bisexual.

Nancy Garden's finest...

Having heard so much about Nancy Garden, I ran right to the library and got Annie On My Mind. The book was wonderful and very educational about the emotional aspects of a young lesbian partnership. So naturally, when I heard about Good Moon Rising, I went to the library to get that as well. I finished it in a period of three hours, never putting it down once. This has to be one of the most well-written, true-to-life, amazing books I have ever read. It comes straight from the heart and, at some points, made me cry. As a fifteen-year-old lesbian, I can't even begin to say how much I relate to this story. Many thank-yous to Nancy Garden for her fine writing. I would recommend this book to anyone, gay or straight, to remind them of the powers of homophobia and how it affects the people on the receiving end of it.

DEFINATELY A 10

I read this book when I was 18 and it was like reality for me. The love and hardships that Kerry and Jan had shared together is remarkable. It opened my eyes and my heart.

Probably the best book I've ever read!

I wish that I could give this book more than five stars, because it certainly deserves it. After reading "Annie on My Mind", I was thrilled to see that Nancy Garden had written another book about young lesbians. I hoped that it would be as good as "Annie" and I was not disappointed. In fact, I liked it better. The characters seemed more real, and it was much easier to relate to the situation they ended up in. I read the entire book in one night, and started reading it again the next day. It is beautifully written and very eyeopening. This book isn't just for teenagers that are questioning their sexuality, but for everyone. If you want to know what it is like to be young and gay, this book is probably the most accurate depiction I have ever seen. A must read!

Sweet and moving

As a long-time "Annie on My Mind", I was thrilled to see this new book by the same author. I expected a good, moving story and I was not disappointed. While "Moon" did not quite achieve the unique beauty and strength of "Annie", it is definitely not a letdown. It explores the harassment and abuse that gay teenagers endure with much more detail than "Annie" did, with a good dose of symbolism (for instance, several parallels are drawn between the Salem witch trials and modern homophobia.) I would recommend it to anyone- especially those who still harbor stereotypes about gay people.