More Perfect Than the Moon

While commuting to my summer school classes I have been listening to audio books. This week when I realized that the book I was reading was going to only have a few minutes left for the ride home, I picked up a short middle grades book from the library, More Perfect Than the Moon. When I saw that the library had it, I was thrilled to read it because I have it in my classroom library. A few years ago one of my students loved the book and wanted to re-read it after she had already read it once in the year. I thought it would be a great chance to see what she loved about it so much. Then, I can book talk it when school starts back up in under a month.

In the book Cassie's mom is pregnant and she is not happy about it at all. However, she does find pleasure writing in her journal, which is actually a mixture of reality and her imagination playing with the seeds of true events. I always love books that have main characters who love to play with words and express themselves through the joy of writing. It made me think of El color de mis palabras and Sharon Creech's Absolutely Normal Chaos.

When I unpack my classroom library I will be excited to find it to see what it looks like format wise, as that is one thing that I miss with audio books. I am imagining that there will be textual cues, such as a different font to distinguish the journal writing from the regular narration.

When I went to get the Amazon link for the book I realized that it is part of the Sarah Plain and Tall series. I don't know how I missed it. I don't remember if I read it or not, but I remember my mom watching the movie versions with us on TV when I was younger.

Today I went to return this to my university library and had a chance to browse through their YA shelves on the look out for more audio books because they are all mixed in. I checked out three more books and then had to pull myself away from browsing because I knew I would be tempted to get more. We'll see how many more I can get through with my last three weeks of summer school.