Over the Moon

by Elissa Haden Guest

Book Overview

Over protests from her family, sixteen-year-old Kate makes a difficult journey to see her beloved older sister, who ran away without explanation four years before.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553265652
• ISBN13: 9780553265651
• Release Date: July 1987
• Publisher: Starfire
• Length: 201 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

A Romantic Book Entitled Over the Moon

Megan Feb. 20, 2007 Over the Moon By. Elissa Haden Guest ISBN= 0-553-26565-2 The Journey of a Young Woman Have you ever felt alone? Like you cant call home? Like you can never go back? This is just the way Kate felt when she ran off to find her sister in Nova Scotia. A week or so after her birthday. This book is about a teenage girl who sets off to find her sister and on the way falls in love. This book is a totally realistic book. This book is an awesome book for young adults who enjoy love stories. I enjoyed this book because it is a fast moving book with my favorite genre love. I would totally recommend this to all who enjoy love stories. This book is fast moving and every page you turn there is another exciting and well written page about the memories problems she faces along her journey. This book was not boring it is very well written and explained in beautiful words. Guest wrote this book very well and there was not a page that I was ever bored. You should defiantly read this book.

a wonderful journey of growth

I have had this book for years, and I love it so much. "Over the Moon" tells the story of 16-year-old Kate and her family, which was shaken by the death of both parents in a car accident a few years before and is still feeling the subsequent repercussions of the event: the disappearance of moody Mattie, the unpredictable older sister; the internalized anger of brother Jay; and the loving but overprotective nature of their guardian Aunt Georgia. Following her 16th birthday, Kate begins a transformative journey into young adulthood, first traveling back to the old family home in New York City with Jay and tormenting herself with a visit to her old crush (and Mattie's ex boyfriend) Will, then later learning Mattie's whereabouts and making a trek to Canada to find her. In her reunion with her sister, who often caused so much strife in the family, Kate gets to know Mattie in a new light, but also gets to know herself at a new plane in her life. An encounter with Max, another young traveler, helps Kate to further grow into her more mature character. Despite the fact that the main character/narrator is only 16, this is not a story that's limited to younger readers. The descriptive writing is wonderful (their home in Massachusetts, the trip to New York, Kate's journey and Mattie's home are all filled with marvelous descriptions and details), and the characters are very real: realistically flawed, troubled but not melodramatically so, and dynamic in the way that real people are (and too often characters in books are not). This story for me is timeless. I first found this book when I was 11; I am now in my mid-20s and still come back to it on occasion. I would recommend it to anyone seeking a mature coming-of-age story or a portrait of character growth. Both are realized in the character of Kate.

Please put this book back in print!!

This is a wonderful book, beautifully written, with interesting, believable characters you really care about right away. There's a strong sense of place and a totally enveloping mood; it's a book you don't want to leave once you start. I've read this book once a year for four years, and I want to buy it but it's out of print. I think that's really sad; Elissa Haden Guest is a talented writer and I hope she's still writing books.

Incredible, Beautiful Writing

This is an incredible book. I first read it when I was about 11 and have been able to read it over and over without being dissapointed. The thing that hits me the most about this book is the authors use of language and discription. Every time I read it I find myself wishing that I could live in it.

Over The Moon- A Fantastic, although hard to find, book

Over The Moon was really fabulous- but then again maybe I'm just prejudiced because I'm friends with the author's daughter and the author. Still, it was much more than what I read about on the back- I was very impressed by the used of a sort of simple, non-overwhelming feeling of the words, while it retained a great emotional value.