“ This book “Keeping the Moon” by Sarah Dessen takes you though situations that actual teens and adults go though anywhere from love-lives to friendship struggles. Colie has been though many years of getting picked on because she used to be fat. When she goes to live with her aunt for the summer, she meets two girls who whether or not Colie wants it, are going to change her life for the better. Her aunt Mira is the “town freak” because she dresses different and is more overweight than everyone else in the town. Norman lives with Mira because he didn’t like his pre-determined future that his father gave him. Morgan and Isabel are best friends that live down a hill from Mira. They take Colie under their wings and teach her the meaning of having true friends. The climax of the story is when Caroline Dawes, the rudest girl from school, comes into the ‘Last Chance’ which is where Colie works and starts saying things. Isabel hears this and gets mad. Colie and her then work on getting Colie look more presentable. Isabel shows a picture to Colie of a little girl who is overweight; she says it is her cousin. After that night Colie started getting more self-esteem little by little. “Keeping the Moon” by Sarah Dessen holds a strong theme of not letting other people get to you when it comes to what people think of you. You are your own person and you should NEVER let someone else tell you different. Morgan and Isabel taught Colie this throughout the whole novel. They started this by Isabel hating Colie right from the get-go, Morgan took Isabel over to apologize and the three of them started to work together. Though the experience Colie learned what friends REALLY are and learned that no one should tell her that she is worth nothing. Dessen teaches young and older girls that people shouldn’t make you feel like you don’t matter. Though the whole story Dessen writes with words that make you feel as you should be there and help the characters out. ”
Gretchen J wrote this review Saturday, December 1, 2012.
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