Promise Me the Moon

by Joyce Annette Barnes

Book Overview

This is the inspiring story of Annie Armstrong, an ambitious African-American girl who's facing a slew of personal changes and academic challenges. When a science teacher encourages her to apply to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 014038040X
• ISBN13: 9780140380408
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.5" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Good Book!

The book, Promise Me the Moon, was a very good book. It was about a little girl named Annie. Annie went through several struggles in her life. She dealt with the death of a loved one, breaking up with her boyfriend, and she struggled to fit in. Annie was a very smart girl and wanted to be an astronaut and travel to the moon someday. I liked this book because I really like Annie's courage. She was always herself no matter what and she didn't care what other people thought.

[My] Review

This book was a page turning, mind boggleing, "I wonder what is going to happen next" kind of book. The author choose a great personality for each and every one of the charcters in the book.She also choose a good topic for this book.It was a fantastic love, and adventure kind of book!!!

A girl's education goes beyond the walls of her school

Annie's growing up. She wants to be an astronaut, she wants to go to the best school in the state, she wants....She's thirteen, and she's overwhelmed. When her brother invites her to spend some time in New York, she leaves that complicated life behind for a while. In the Big Apple, she gets a taste of what black artists and writers have accomplished. She is filled with inspiration, and she home goes to apply to a new high school, feeling full of dreams. The only problem is that her independent ways are misinterpreted by the very people who should understand them. Barnes writes a compelling story. The narrative holds its form throughout the novel, and though the secondary characters needed more fleshing out, the depiction of Annie and her family ring true. The only complaint I have is a stylistic one: Barnes uses first person, present tense narration, a faddish technique which detracts from the story and makes the reader too conscious of the writer. Of course style is, as always, a matter of taste.