num_pages: 245
description: Thirteen-year-old Clare Silver is stuck. Stuck in grief over her mothers recent death. Stuck in the African jungle for sixty-four days without phone reception. Stuck with her father a doctor who seems able to heal everyone but Clare.Clare feels like a fish out of water at Mzanga Full Primary School. Soon though she becomes immersed in her new surroundings and impressed with her fellow students who are crowded into a tiny space working on the floor among roosters and centipedes.When Clares new friends take her on an outing to a lake the trip goes horribly wrong and Clare must face another heartbreak head-on. Only an orphan named Memory who knows about love and loss can teach Clare how to laugh with the moon.
language: English
title: Laugh with the Moon
publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers