Keeping the Moon

Keeping the Moon is by once again Sarah Dessen and is 240 pages long. It is about a girl named Nicole "Colie" Sparks. Before her mother became a weight loss powerhouse and famous spokes woman "Kiki Sparks" Colie and her mom traveled the country and were overweight and lived in and out of gas stations and hotels. But Colies mom finally settled down and started to take aerobics classes and eventually starts her own and now she has to own line of Kiki Products. Even Colie shed 45 pounds and is skinny, but she doesn't seem to have self confidence. Colies mother is going to Europe and is making Colie go and stay with her aunt Mira. She isn't very happy about this but she really doesn't have a choice. While she is their she realizes that Mira is a little eccentric and is overweight and really doesn't care what the other people in the town think of her. She also meets this boy named Norman who loves to collect sunglasses and loves to draw. He lives in Miras basement. Mira gives Colie money to go down to the Last Chance Restaraunt and when she is their she meets best friends Isabelle and Morgan. While she is their Norman offers her a job and she accepts it. While she is working their she makes friends with Morgan and Isabelle. She finds out what girl time really means because she has never had friends and nobody likes her back home where she lives. But one time she encounters a girl from her old school who starts to make fun of her again. Isabelle tells her to stand up for herself. She meets this boy and Norman gets upset because he really likes her. So Colie starts to realize that Norman is really sweet and she goes out with him. She finds out what Keeping the Moon is and how Morgan and Isabelle can go through some really rocky times... Especially with Morgans Fiance Mark.

I LOVED this book. I think that this can be said for almost all of Sarah Dessens novels. This one is a winner and I found myself laughing out loud the whole time. It is a great book on what finding yourself really means and how you shouldn't let others judge you and that they should an you should accept people for who they are not for what they look like. I think all girls from 14 and up would love this book and I think that you should go pick up a copy of this today!!