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Gr 9 Up—Love bests every opponent in this surreal exploration of familial bonds and sexual identity. Teens Sam and Miel have been best friends for years, ever since Miel appeared, sodden and terrified, amid the flooded ground around an overturned water tower. As their friendship unfolds into romance, long-repressed secrets and rumors clamor for air. Sam is reticent and obsessed with painting moons on paper and metal. Miel and her guardian, Aracely, are thought to be witches—Miel because roses grow ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

If Jeffrey Eugenides's characters were to walk out of his books and into Laura Esquivel's, you might get When the Moon Was Ours, the trappings of which add more verisimilitude than found in your average work of magical realism. In an unnamed town that could be in the American Southwest or somewhere in Latin America, seven young adults stand out from the otherwise vanilla, ordinary-seeming residents: Sam (short for Samir), a boy who is different because he is Pakistani; Miel, who scares ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In an unnamed town in what could be the American Southwest or Latin America, seven young adults stand out from the vanilla residents. ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More