Shana Burg
Laugh with the Moon, is on the Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List.,Â  Thirteen-year-old Clare Silver is stuck. Stuck in denial about her motherâ€™s recent death. Stuck in the African jungle for sixty-four days without phone reception. Stuck with her father, a doctor who seems able to heal everyone but Clare.,Clare feels like a fish out of water at Mzanga Full Primary School, where she must learn a new language. Soon, though, she becomes immersed in her new surroundings and impressed with her fellow students, who are crowded into a tiny space, working on the floor among roosters and centipedes.,Â Â Â When Clareâ€™s new friends take her on an outing to see the country, the trip goes horribly wrong, and Clare must face another heartbreak head-on. Only an orphan named Memory, who knows about love and loss, can teach Clare how to laugh with the moon.,Â Â Â Told from an American girlâ€™s perspective, this story about how death teaches us to live and how love endures through our memories will capture the hearts of readers everywhere.
Realistic Fiction,Cultural,Africa,Childrens,Middle Grade,Young Adult,Fiction,Death,Cultural,Childrens,Juvenile,Childrens,Family
Laugh with the Moon