Jack hasn’t so much as a whisper of self-respect at the start, and that’s a starting point. Ally talks to stars as if they were her friends, so that makes her interesting right there. A nice guy, sure, but no one you’d feel the need to enter the head of. As it stands, he’s just your normal everyday teenaged doofus. One gets the vague sense that had he proved to be a more interesting person, maybe he could have earned himself a narrative. He’s a character that has been friends with Ally for years, but is suddenly far more interested in a girl as fashion conscious as Bree. I was curious to see that though four kids are hanging out in this book, only three were allowed a voice. Backmatter consists of an Author’s Note and websites and books for further reading about the night sky. Topping it all off is an event that changes how they see themselves when all the lights go out. In the midst of this problem arrives Jack, a self-conscious artistic type who has come for the total eclipse of the sun along with thousands of other tourists. She’s the queen bee of popularity at her school and the notion of spending a couple years surrounded by just rocks and natural beauty is horrifying, to say the least. That someone is Bree’s family and as much as Ally doesn’t want to leave, so too does Bree not want to stay. Now she’s found out that her parents have sold the place to someone else and soon she’ll have to move. For most of her natural born life Ally has lived on the campground far away from the rest of society, just the way she likes it.
Two of them, however, have the exact same problem and that has to do with Moon Shadow Campground. The narrative is split between three kids as different as different can be. Entirely engaging and oddly thrilling, this is one contemporary tween novel that’s just begging for the right booktalk. Once again author Wendy Mass takes a crack at science and the idea of questioning a world that you may have taken for granted until now.
Boring! You know what’s exciting? Realistic eclipse fiction like Every Soul a Star.
I’ve never heard of one, but it makes perfect sense for people to be racing against an eclipse so as to close the portal on another dimension, etc. Odds are that such a book would be a fantasy novel. And I’m sure, I am sure, that a novel has been written with an eclipse at its climax. The death of the atom in Smiles to Go or the frozen lake of melted radioactive sand in The Green Glass Sea (okay, so maybe that one’s not so natural). Then the child readers get a little older and the phenomena get more complex. Picture books, for example, are filled with fireflies, rainbows, and shooting stars. Natural phenomena lend themselves to children’s literature.
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