Moonflower / Kacen Callender.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2022Copyright date: ©2022Edition: First editionDescription: 262 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781338636598
- 1338636596
- 9781338636604
- 133863660X
- African American girls -- Juvenile fiction
- African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Identity (Psychology) -- Juvenile fiction
- Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Juvenile fiction
- Alienation (Social psychology) -- Juvenile fiction
- Imagination -- Juvenile fiction
- Mothers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction
- Mental illness -- Juvenile fiction
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Fiction | CALLENDE KACEN | Available | 33111011011588 | ||||
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | CALLENDE KACEN | Available | 33111010900732 | ||||
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Northport Library | Children's Fiction | CALLENDE KACEN | Available | 33111009450376 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Kacen Callender, National Book Award winner of King and the Dragonflies, delivers a stunning novel that invites readers into a child's struggles with mental health, and their journey to wholeness.
Moon's depression is overwhelming. Therapy doesn't help, and Moon is afraid that their mom hates them because they're sad. Moon's only escape is traveling to the spirit realms every night, where they hope they'll never return to the world of the living again.
The spirit realm is where they have their one and only friend, Wolf, and where they're excited to experience an infinite number of adventures. But when the realm is threatened, it's up to Moon to save the spirit world.
With the help of celestial beings and guardians, Moon battles monsters and shadows, and through their journey, they begin to learn that a magical adventure of love and acceptance awaits them in the world of the living, too.
This story of hope shows readers that our souls blossom when we realize that we are as worthy and powerful as the universe itself.
Ages 8-12. Scholastic Inc.
Grades 4-6. Scholastic Inc.
Moon is convinced that they do not belong to this world: that most of the time they are invisible (unless they stay still too long), that they belong to the stars, and wants to go back to them--they live entirely in their imagination with an imaginary spirit guide who can appear in any shape and refuses to speak to anyone, lest their words tie them to a world they rejects.