The trio's paths converge because Ally's parents have sold the Moon Shadow to Bree's, and everyone meets up at the campgrounds during a major eclipse. Three narrators take turns: Ally, who lives with her parents and younger brother at the Moon Shadow Campground and loves every tree and every rock on it, but most especially the stars above it glamour-loving Bree, who announces to readers that she must have been "switched at birth" to explain her presence among physicist parents and a geeky younger sister and Jack, who is helping his science teacher lead a solar eclipse tour to the Moon Shadow to make up his failing grade. Told from three distinct voices and perspectives, Wendy Mass weaves an intricate and compelling story about strangers coming together, unlikely friendships, and finding one's place in the universe.Ĭonfirming her mastery of the middle-grade novel, Mass (Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life) combines astronomy and storytelling for a well-balanced look at friendships and the role they play in shaping identity. But when opportunity knocks, he finds himself in situations he never would have imagined and making friends in the most unexpected situations. Overweight and awkward, jack is used to spending a lot of time alone. Bree wears her beauty like a suit of armor. Popular and gorgeous (everybody says so), Bree is a future homecoming queen for sure. Her home, the Moon Shadow campground, is a part of who she is, and she refuses to imagine it any other way. It's also were three lives are about to be changed forever:Īlly likes the simple things in life-labyrinths, star-gazing, and comet-hunting. From bestselling and award-winning author Wendy Mass comes a gorgeous novel about three very different teenagers finding their place in the universe.Īnd as streams of light fan out behind the darkened sun like the wings of a butterfly, I realize that I never saw real beauty until now.Īt Moon Shadow, an isolated campground, thousands have gathered to catch a glimpse of a rare and extraordinary total eclipse of the sun.
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