![]() ![]() A beautifully written and deeply moving story about finding and fighting for your place in the world. ![]() ![]() But her happiness is shattered when she returns home to the news that her classmate has been arrested for the murder of two white girls - and nothing will ever be the same again. So when an invitation arrives to come to Boston for a visit Ella is ecstatic - and the trip proves life-changing in more ways than one.įor the first time, Ella sees what life outside of segregation is like, and begins to dream of a very different future. Bittersweet and eye-opening, How High the Moon is a timeless novel about a girl finding herself in a world all but determined to hold her down. ![]() Product Details Price 7.99 7.43 Publisher Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Publish Date MaPages 320 Dimensions 5.2 X 7.5 X 1.0 inches 0. The deep racial tension that simmers beneath their town's peaceful facade never quite goes away, and Ella misses her mama - a beautiful jazz singer, who lives in Boston. Bittersweet and eye-opening, How High the Moon is a timeless novel about a girl finding herself in a world all but determined to hold her down. It's 1944, and in a small, Southern, segregated town, eleven-year-old Ella spends her summers running wild with her cousins and friends.īut life isn't always so sunny. Folks didn't wait for church to dress in their fancy clothes.įancy was just life. Up there, colored folks could go anywhere they wanted. ![]()
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