Northward to the Moon
Narrator: Becca Battoe
Imprint: Listening Library
Grades: Grade 5 & Up
Ages: 10 and up
Release Date: February 23, 2010
4 Hours and 47 Minutes
List Price: $39
ISBN: 9780307706423
Categories:
Juvenile Fiction - Social Themes - Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, Juvenile Fiction - Family - Alternative Family, Juvenile Fiction - Social Themes - New Experience
In this beautiful follow-up to the highly acclaimed My One Hundred Adventures, Jane and her family have moved to Canada . . . but not for long. When her stepfather, Ned, is fired from his job as a high school French teacher (seems he doesn’t speak French), the family packs up and Jane embarks on a series of new adventures. At first, she imagines her family as a gang of outlaws, riding on horseback in masks, robbing trains, and traveling all the way to Mexico. But the reality is different: Setting off by car, they visit the tribe of Native Americans with whom Ned once lived, head to Las Vegas in search of Ned’s magician brother, and wind up spending the summer with his eccentric mother on her ranch out west. As Jane lives through it all—developing a crush on a ranch hand, reevaluating her relationship with Ned, watching her sister Maya’s painful growing up—she sees her world, which used to be so safe and secure, shift in strange and inconvenient ways.