shirleytupperfreeman 's review for:

Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool

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This is the latest Newbery Award Winner and it's wonderful!! It surely deserved the award. The story merges back and forth between 1918 and 1936 in a small mining town in Kansas populated with mostly immigrant families. It's a beautiful story told with humor, depth and love. In the author's note at the end, Vanderpool does a great job telling her young (and not so young) readers which parts of the story are based on 'fact' and which on imagination.