When the Moon Was Ours
A Novel
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ISBN10: 1250160103
ISBN13: 9781250160102
Trade Paperback
288 Pages
$10.99
CA$14.50
Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Young People's Literature
A Stonewall Book Award Honor Book
Second Place for Best Young Adult Fiction Book, International Latino Book Awards
To everyone who knows them, best friends Miel and Sam are as strange as they are inseparable. Roses grow out of Miel’s wrist, and rumors say that she spilled out of a water tower when she was five. Sam is known for the moons he paints and hangs in the trees and for how little anyone knows about his life before he and his mother moved to town. But as odd as everyone considers Miel and Sam, even they stay away from the Bonner girls, four beautiful sisters rumored to be witches. Now they want the roses that grow from Miel’s skin, convinced that their scent can make anyone fall in love. And they’re willing to use every secret Miel has fought to protect to make sure she gives them up.
Atmospheric, dynamic, and packed with gorgeous prose, When the Moon was Ours is another winner from this talented author.
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Praise for When the Moon Was Ours
"Readers who stick with this novel will be rewarded with a love story that is as endearingly old-fashioned as it is modern and as fantastical as it is real."—School Library Journal (starred)
"With luminous prose infused with Latino folklore and magical realism, this mixes fairy-tale ingredients with the elegance of a love story, with all of it rooted in a deeply real sense of humanity. Lovely, necessary, and true."—Booklist (starred)
"McLemore mesmerizes once again with a lush narrative set at the thresholds of identity, family, and devotion . . . Readers will be ensnared in this ethereal narrative long before they even realize the net has been cast."—Kirkus Reviews (starred)
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About the author
Anna-Marie McLemore
