Shoot for the Moon-Glb

by Norma Howe

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517581515
• ISBN13: 9780517581513
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9

Customer Reviews

Shoot for the Moon!

This book is about a thirteen-year-old girl named Gina Gari who wins a 10 day trip to Italy. She wins this trip because the ice cream parlor where she works is holding a yo-yo competition. Her grandfather taught her how to yo-yo before he passed away.when she godes to Italy, she and her chaperone Maddy meet a cute Dutch boy named Stefan. Her grandmother's last wish before she dies is that Gina go to a chapel in the Italian city of Assi to feed the birds. She wont tell Gina why, but she keeps saying to Gina,"The date is very important.It must be on the fifth day of July and no other,do you hear me?" So Gina goes to Italy to fulfill her "mission" only to find out some things about her grandmother's past that really shocks her.My favorite part of the book is when Gina gets to Italy because that is where the most exiting part of the entire book happens. For example, Gina gets stuck on a subway that is going to Rome, when her friends are still back at the station.She gets stuck on the train because she had left a bag of sunflower seeds on the train, and she had to get them to feed the birds with. Also, she makes many new friends: Stefan, Ceci, the Australians Barb and Bluey. She also meets this old man that was once her grandmother's boyfriend or something, and when she had to leave him to go to San Fracisco to marry Gina's grandfather, she never saw him again. The reason that it had to be July fifth was because that was the day they parted, and the old man had been coming up to this chapel every July fifth for the last sixty years. Gina felt so sad after hearing this from the old man. When the old man told her that his name was Salvatore, Gina was amazed because her grandmother had named her only son after the boy she had to leave behind. The end is kind of sad because Gina has to leave all of her new friends behind. The saddest one is when she has to say good bye to Stefan because she kinda likes him. This is a really fantastic book. I really liked it.