Looking at the Moon

By Kit Pearson

Book Overview

Norah, an English "war guest" living with the wealthy Ogilvie family in Toronto, can hardly wait for August. She'll spend it at the Ogilvie's lavish cottage in Muskoka a whole month of freedom, swimming, adventures with her "cousins..". But this isn't an ordinary summer. It's 1943, and the war is still going on. Sometimes Norah can't even remember what her parents look like she hasn't seen them in three years. And she has turned thirteen, which means life seems to be getting more complicated. Then a distant Ogilvie cousin, Andrew, arrives. He is nineteen, handsome, intelligent, and Norah thinks she may be falling in love for the first time. But Andrew has his own problems: he doesn't want to fight in the war, and yet he knows it's what his family and friends expect of him. What the two of them learn from each other makes for a gentle, moving story, the second book in a trilogy that began with the award-winning "The Sky Is Falling." "

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140348522
• ISBN13: 9780140348521
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 25.0" x 75.0"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

The greatest book!!!!!!!!!!

This IS the absolute best book ever you have to read it!!!

This book is a 5 star rating because it is the BEST!

this book is suitable to readers 12-16 as it is so down to earth and you can really feel Norahs feeling towards her cousin! I love the way her Aunts nag her and tell her about the pains fo growing up. I reacomend this to 12-16 year olds because i feel you need to be near her age

Awesome

Looking At The Moon Is a wonderful tale of a young girl going throug hard times in her life. Norah a young war guest is spending the summer at her guardians summer house. There she learns many things about herself and about the war. She also falls in love for the first time, and finds out how hard it is to be in love. This is a WONDERFUL book. Also you should read the first on The Sky Is Falling, and the last on The Lights Go On. It is a WONDERFUL Triology