Moon Over Manifest: (Newbery Medal Winner), (Paperback)

from bell7

Abilene Tucker rode the rails with her father, Gideon, until the day she got hurt and he sent her to Manifest. She knows Manifest because of her father's stories; she knows from his stories that this small town holds a significant place in her father's heart. During the summer of 1936 while she s...

from thelibrarina

I don't think anybody expected this book to win the Newbery. Now that I've read it, I'm surprised nobody saw it coming. Abilene Tucker's father has found sunmmer work--not something to take for granted in 1936. But it's a railroad job, and Abilene can't stay with him. He sends her to Manifest, Ka...

from bell7

Abilene Tucker rode the rails with her father, Gideon, until the day she got hurt and he sent her to Manifest. She knows Manifest because of her father's stories; she knows from his stories that this small town holds a significant place in her father's heart. During the summer of 1936 while she s...

from thelibrarina

I don't think anybody expected this book to win the Newbery. Now that I've read it, I'm surprised nobody saw it coming. Abilene Tucker's father has found sunmmer work--not something to take for granted in 1936. But it's a railroad job, and Abilene can't stay with him. He sends her to Manifest, Ka...

from jolerie

But the woman, the mother, she watches, she waits, she loves. And she bears the weight of that love. She bears the loss of her son to war. She bears the story of Manifest. When everyone else is crushed by it, by the loss, the pain. When no one else can bear to remember. She is the keeper of the s...