", "I’m -really tired," I said. "Car’s over here," he said, and I followed him to a battered old Ford station wagon parked in the empty lot. The blue sunglasses were parked on top of his head. "I can’t stand it when he does this," Mira said, her voice fading again. Keeping the Moon is a young adult, fictional novel. I wondered if I was dreaming. Just watch out for the huge pothole and the Masons’ rottweiler and you’re home free. Cat Norman hauled himself out from under the couch and nudged the bottom of the box with his nose. Keeping the Moon. "You know that is not how we discussed it. I’d had it done only months earlier, but it felt like it had always been part of me, my touchstone. We watched wrestling for about an hour. A few years later, when Colie got slim, everyone at school still hates her. There is a third category in Scripture: New Moon day.See study below. Laughing at the same parts, anticipating the same things and loving all the characters. ", "Isabel," Morgan said, elbowing her. So when she's sent to stay with her eccentric aunt Mira for the summer, Colie doesn't expect too much. "Oh, no, not that Norman. It had been months since I’d had a french fry, much less a burger, and my mouth was already -watering. "Go ahead.". EMBED. "Just a burger and fries. I first read it a few years back when I was 14 so I've been waiting a while to re-read this book and give it a proper review. ", "That thing in your lip," she said. Lard-O! Keeping the Moon begins at the train station, where Nicole Sparks is being shipped off to her eccentric aunt Mira's for the summer while her mom tours Europe, promoting her tips for weight loss. "Cat Norman?" He got out and went around to the back door, unloading my stuff and piling it on the front steps. You get to a point where you just can’t. What did you get?". the guy said, and when I looked up he took a few steps toward me. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. The last of our stops was Charlotte, North Carolina, three years ago. he asked. Then she saw me. I mean, people who are on the bigger side get made fun of, but the book's mostly about kind of learning to accept that and not care what other people think. She had her arms crossed over her chest. "Cat Norman!" "I need to order some takeout," I said. Morgan came up to the second step and nodded toward me. I’d go another mile, running fast enough, finally, to leave the voices behind me. In this new enviroment, she finally starts to let go of her past and the demons that taunt her at home. "Yes. It’s just breaking my heart. And I wished for a moment that she had a sign too, some index card with instructions to let me know how to proceed. But I was glad when I didn't cry anymore. ", "Their chicken Caesar salad is so good!" I thought that it might be hard for me to get back into since I'd already read it and was worried that I wouldn't like it as much as I did when I was younger. When the train pulled into the Colby station five hours later, the only person waiting was a guy with shoulder-length brown hair, a tie-dyed T-shirt, cutoff army shorts, and Birkenstocks. My face was dry and tight, my eyelashes sticky from the crying I didn't do anymore. flag. "Okay," she began, "I am sorry I said what I said. that I can't get enough of. I had cheekbones, muscles, a flat stomach, clear skin, just like my mother. I was new here. "Uh-huh," the blonde said. "A dollar seventy. And skinny! she said. She pointed under a chair by the door where he’d settled himself and was now licking his back leg, loudly. And by the end of the book I was almost in tears with the transformation of Colie. She turned and went out on the front porch, leaving the screen door in half-swing for me to catch. Meanwhile, my mom’s classes at Lady Fitness kept growing, with women crowding in hip to hip to follow her gospel. I am so happy to move onto other books, I loved doing this marathon but I went through many ups and downs. "Fine," I said, wondering what kind of weirdo Mira had sent for me. "She’s not so bad," she said to me, as if I’d said otherwise. "He stays in the downstairs room. The light turned green; we chugged slowly forward. Girls & Women, Friendship, Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance. "Okay, then. There was a sudden burst of music from the little house. She was super enthusiastic, the one voice you could hear above all the rest, all three hundred pounds of her touch-stepping and heel-toeing, clapping her hands and singing along to the music. "I’ll get that," I said, grabbing it from him. For that reason, knowing when the new moon occurs is important. To end the Battle between the Moon and Sun a new spiritual imagery must replace the current solar form. It didn't. Oh, no. 11. Keeping the moon Item Preview > remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2011. The best for you, I thought. Thunder Thighs! "You have company, honey.". the blonde said to me, ignoring her. You couldn’t stay by yourself at the house all summer. Before, she was just Katharine, college dropout and master of a million small talents: she’d pumped gas, peddled cemetery plots over the phone, sold Mary Kay cosmetics, even arranged appointments at an escort service. "My fiancé." "Is that you? But Colie knows better than to anticipate a new start for herself. In my first real memory, at five, I am wearing white mary janes and sitting in the front seat of our old Volaré station wagon in front of a 7–Eleven. She scrunched up her nose as she said it. "It’s creepy. "Understand," Isabel repeated. The main characters are Nicole “Colie” Sparks, Isabel, Morgan, and Norman. He had to be some kind of art freak. After Someone Like You, which was a heavier book that dealt with some big issues, Keeping the Moon was a fun, less-stress summer book that still had something to say. Cat Norman was beside her, his back arched as her hand brushed over him. I wasn’t hungry anymore. In the metal basket on the front was a pair of sunglasses with big black frames. Please try again. And it’s a straight shot up to the Last Chance. I was worried because we had a huge storm system come through and it was bad enough to get our covered porch wet. "Kiki," said the assistant, whose name I hadn’t even bothered to learn because she’d be gone by the time I got back, fired before they even reached the airport, probably, "we’ve got to go if we want to make that flight. "Where’s Morgan?" .". I just stood there. I love Sarah Dessen and her work and I’m excited to share it with my cousin! It was Mira, her voice right outside my door. She is still dealing with a lot of issues regarding her self-esteem; the years of being made fun of for being overweight sort of hang over her head wherever she goes despite the fact that she has lost the weight. Free download or read online Keeping the Moon pdf (ePUB) book. Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2020. . 23 | JUL | 2020 One of the very first ‘calendars’ found by archaeologists were lines inscribed upon bone - the ancient equivalent of … My mother and I were both fat. I’d push through another set of repetitions, curling the dumbbell tight into my arm, even when the pain was killing me. She stepped back, next to Morgan, and squinted at me. Her mother, who has also lost weight, is a world famous workout woman who is going on a tour in Europe. It was strange. ", "Well, there’s a place just up on the corner," she told me. After a few months one of them started helping her prepare for the certification test so she could teach her own classes. You’ve had such a long day, all this excitement. The Moon is the only other planetary body that humans have visited. "Hey, Colie," he said. I could build muscle, but not confidence. ", I just looked at her; she was leaning forward, eyes fixed on the screen. We turned on to a dirt road and passed a few houses with glimpses of water just beyond. is available now and can be read on any device with the free Kindle app. "Okay. She opens the car door and tosses in the loot, the bag of Fritos banking off my leg and onto the floor. I've done it, I've read my first Sarah Dessen. She said this defensively, as if I’d demanded it of her. Not to mention they both move slower than molasses.". I’m ravenous." "We’ll find him," Norman said. He obviously thought I was serious. For me, this wasn't as good as other Sarah Dessen books. Fifteen-year-old Colie, a former fat girl, spends the summer working as a waitress in a beachside restaurant, staying with her overweight and eccentric Aunt Mira, and trying to explore her sense of self. Norman said, and the cat turned to look at him, flicking his tail. Then it came back: the train, Norman, wrestling, Isabel’s beauty tips. "With your hair that color and that thing in your lip you look terrible even when you’re smiling." I asked. On a thirty-dollar tab.". Mira was sitting in front of the TV when I came in. "Wow," he said. Please take a moment to review my edit. Of an entire summer stretching ahead. "Oh, Colie," she said, and she pulled me close, burying her face in the jet-black hair that had almost made her have a total breakdown when I came to breakfast that morning. When her mom goes out of the country for a workout tour, she has to stay at her crazy aunt Mira's house. "We’re coming," I said, and I stepped inside. No_Favorite. 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