Moon Over Manifest, written by Clare Vanderpool, is a fun book full of mystery and adventure. Armed with an old broken compass, a dress, some overalls, and an old newspaper clipping, 12-year-old Abilene Tucker gets sent away to live with an old man in the town her father grew up in.
Abilene Tucker is determined to learn more about her father's childhood and the skeletons in his closet. She discovers a cigar box full of mementos and a letter belonging to a couple of boys named Jinx and Ned. Included in the box is a letter mentioning a spy called the Rattler.
Abilene and her friends, Ruthanne and Lettie, spend their summer looking for the Rattler and getting to know Jinx and Ned through Miss Sadie, a fortune-teller.
Abilene soon gets discouraged. She can't find any influence her father, Gideon, had on the old Kansas town! She also isn't quite sure that Gideon really will come get her at the end of the summer.
However, Abilene learns many lessons: when people come together, they can accomplish much, and, "the lines between truth and myth are not what they seem." She also learns that nobody is a true universal: "Maybe there were just people. People who were tired and hurt and lonely and kind in their own way and in their own time."I really enjoyed this book. It was sweet, and it taught good lessons. I would recommend Moon Over Manifest to anyone and for any age group.
Written by Emma, who finished the book today and compared it to To Kill a Mockingbird and Tom Sawyer.
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