Nourishes the spirit and fills the soul. - Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich author of Operation
SisterhoodTouching and inspiring. - Lisa Moore Ramée author of A Good Kind of TroubleA taste
of history with the thrills of mystery and brims with family secrets. - Alicia D. Williams
award-winning author of Genesis Begins Again Judy Blume meets Jacqueline Woodson in this
powerful and sweetly emotional coming-of-age story about finding your place in the world from
the author of How High the Moon.This was supposed to be the best year ever for eleven-year-old
Stevie Morrison. But instead her life seems determined to turn itself upside down.First of all
her parents can't stop fighting - and they decide to move the family to a totally new apartment
in a totally new part of town which means a totally new middle school for Stevie. On top of
that her best friend Jennifer is acting weird. She won't return Stevie's phone calls and
apparently her new best friends are a bunch of mean girls.The final straw comes with the
arrival of Stevie's teenage cousin Naomi - sent down in disgrace from Boston (though no one
will tell Stevie why). But with Naomi comes an exciting glimpse of a world Stevie hasn't paid
much attention to before: one of Cleopatra Jones movies women's liberation and an
intriguing-sounding group called the Black Panthers.It might not be the year Stevie
anticipated. But it will be the one that changes her life forever.Praise for How High the
Moon:Essential reading full of voices that must be heard. One of the best stories I've read in
a long while - Emma Carroll author of Letters from the Lighthouse An impressive debut - Mail
on Sunday
