Moonrise
SHORTLISTED FOR THE YA BOOK PRIZE
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Publisher Description
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'Devastating … Any reader with a heart will weep buckets' - Sunday Times Book of the Week
'Impossible to put down' - The Times
'An outstanding and daring achievement' - Irish Examiner
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE YA BOOK PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CBI BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CLiPPA AWARD
LONGLISTED FOR THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL
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They think I hurt someone.
But I didn't. You hear?
Cos people are gonna be telling you
all kinds of lies.
I need you to know the truth.
Joe hasn't seen his brother for ten years, and it's for the most brutal of reasons. Ed is on death row.
But now Ed's execution date has been set, and Joe is determined to spend those last weeks with him, no matter what other people think ...
From Carnegie Medal winner Sarah Crossan, this poignant, stirring, huge-hearted novel asks big questions. What value do you place on life? What can you forgive? And just how do you say goodbye?
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Experience every emotion with the finest verse novelist of our generation...
Don't miss Sarah Crossan's other irresistibly page-turning books Toffee, One, Apple and Rain, and The Weight of Water.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
It's been 10 years since 17-year old Joe has seen his older brother, Ed, who is on death row for murder. After Ed's execution date is set, Joe travels to Wakeling, Tex., to be near him in his final weeks. As his brother vehemently denies his guilt and hopes for a stay of execution, Joe, lonely in an unfamiliar place, reflects on their difficult childhood; the good-hearted, protective Ed of his memories; and the shadowed, convicted murderer he sees daily. Crossan (One) masterfully portrays Joe's intense feelings of confusion, anger, and abandonment through conversational, fluid free verse, with thoughtful rhythm and line breaks. Joe and even Ed are sympathetic characters, and readers may shudder at memories of their mother's neglect and the guilt-by-association Joe experiences as a relative of a convicted felon and death-row inmate. New relationships with Wakeling locals, all of whom have an attachment to the prison, allow Joe a retreat from the heaviness of his thoughts and room to recognize important truths: "We aren't the worst things we did / or the worst things that happen to us. / We're other stuff too." Ages 14 up.
