Keeping the Moon

by Sarah Dessen

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670885495
• ISBN13: 9780670885497
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

An all-time favorite, even now.

I picked this book up in my 5th grade classroom while scavenging through my teachers belongings. Technically, I took it without permission being as though she told me I could borrow it. I don’t regret keeping it. When I first read it, I knew it would be a favorite of mine. Then I read it again while in high school, and I cried through the chapters, wrote notes in it, and sympathized with the characters in a way I couldn’t at the young age I was when I first read. Now 25, I read it again in this time, and I have to say that it still holds a special place in my heart. I plan on handing this to my you her sister to read eventually and on again to my future children or whatever the case may be. All I have left to say is that it is a keepsake book. Something to hold on to for lessons you may have missed previously.

Under the Funny Moon

I am also 15, the same as Colie, and I know this is a book that you could read over and over again and can never seem to put down. I like that it's witty and clever, too. What's funny is that it's called keeping the moon and the book I read right before it, Under the Baseball Moon, is also one of my favorite love stories of all time. I guess now I'm looking for one more "moon" book,, but I definitely recommend this one.

Published under another title

Just to alert anyone who plans to read Dessen's novels, this was also published as Keeping the Moon. Lucky for me, I was borrowing them from the library when I made this discovery and didn't have to return a book. Great story though!

Entertaining

This book is great... just like all the other Sarah Dessen books. If you are a teenage girl, This is a must read. Once you read this your hooked to Sarah Dessen and have to read all her books.

Read this book!!

This book is about 15 year old Nicole Sparks who is forced to stay with her overly obese aunt while her mother,Kiki Sparks,is on a business trip.Shortly after hearing this news,she decides that her summer is ruined but, after an encounter with an artistic hippie,old bullies,a new crush,and two psychotic best friends...her summer just might might end with a bang!Through this heart-capturing novel Nicole's story shows that great friends can be found in strange places. This book was so good,I never put it down!I will admit it is a bit crazy but ,thats what makes it so wonderful to read!You feel as though your your actually in Nicole's shoes through the whole story.Basically what I'm saying is if you like to read strange,funny,and dramatic stories.."Keeping the Moon" is perfect for you!

This book was Sarah Dessen's BEST yet!

I completely LOVED this book. It was so wonderfully funny and heart-warming... I couldn't put it down! I loved the the character of Mira, Colie's Aunt, who was unique and eccentric. Colie was a wonderful character as well, with a sensitive and loving (more so towards the end) personality. You will LOVE this book immensley! It is terrific and you will not be able to put it down for anything! Buy it! If you loved this book as much as I did, then try Sarah Dessen's other books, That Summer, and Someone Like You.