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Full Moon, Half a Heart...Published!

5/11/2019

 
Yay! It's happening! 

Full Moon, Half a Heart​, the second book about spunky schoolgirl Celeste, is available on Amazon. Yes, you can find it right here. 

I have a few details to work out--the book description looks a bit wonky, and I haven't set up the "look inside" feature yet--but the main deed has been done. 

​Double back flip! Triple cartwheel! 

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Sixth grade is almost over. Celeste loves Kansas—-her grandparents, her trailer house on the edge of town, almost everything—-but Dad is moving them north to Wisconsin. To a stinky dairy farm, at that.

Far from Sunflower State Mennonite School and her friend Lexi, Celeste struggles to adjust to a place where school feels like prison, winter lasts forever, and her only pal is a Siamese cat. Worst of all is the barn full of scary cows to feed.

Can Celeste find something likable about this place? Maybe Sally or Rita, her new classmates? Or the calf she saves? (Definitely not Ronnie, of course!)

With so many tough changes, Celeste must grow and be strong, no matter how it hurts.
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This book has been ages in coming. 

​Full Moon, Half a Heart started out approximately eight years ago as a mostly true account of my childhood. It has morphed into an almost completely fictionalized story about a Mennonite schoolgirl who faces big life changes and learns much needed lessons. 

Of course I care about Growing Toward the Sun, but Full Moon, Half a Heart is my firstborn. It takes me back to a time when I thought math homework was tough stuff, a time when I thought life sounded like the recess bell and tasted like cherry chapstick.

When I read it, I feel about twenty-seven years younger and a lot more than twenty-seven pounds lighter. I ordered a proof copy to check for typos, and it's like having the ghost of my childhood, all my opinions and beliefs and fears and joys, lying on the nightstand. 

So yes, I'm excited for kids to read it. 

Watch this space for upcoming giveaways, the ebook publication, and other news about ​Full Moon, Half a Heart.
 

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