num_pages: 228
description: While her mother, aerobics queen Kiki Sparks, spends the summer touring Europe, fifteen-year-old Colie Sparks is stuck in sleepy Colby, North Carolina. But she's not complaining. For one thing, her Aunt Mira is a sweet, laid-back eccentric; for another, no one knows that back home in Charlotte Colie is seen as a formerly-fat "golf-course slut," the school scapegoat. Then, by fate or by accident, Colie lands a waitressing job, where she meets Morgan and Isabel. The two wisecracking--and wise--20something waitresses help her turn her life around, and realize the potential that has been there all along. Sarah Dessen's newest novel is poignant, humorous, and full of characters to cherish--what readers are coming to expect from this extraordinary young talent.
language: English
title: Keeping the Moon
titlecomplete: Keeping the Moon
characters: Morgan Gatewood, Colie Sparks, Mira Sparks, Isabel, Norman Carswell
genres: Fiction, Young Adult Contemporary, Coming Of Age, Teen, Young Adult, Romance, Chick Lit, Realistic Fiction, Contemporary, Young Adult Romance
ratings_count: 67126
places: Colby, North Carolina
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award, awardedAt: 1483257600000
name: Margaret A. Edwards Award
publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers