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    Full Cicada Moon
    Full Cicada Moon
    Full Cicada Moon
    Audiobook4 hours

    Full Cicada Moon

    Written by Marilyn Hilton

    Narrated by Cindy Kay

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    About this audiobook

    Inside Out and Back Again meets One Crazy Summer and Brown Girl Dreaming in this novel-in-verse about fitting in and standing up for what's right.

    It's 1969, and the Apollo 11 mission is getting ready to go to the moon. But for half-black, half-Japanese Mimi, moving to a predominantly white Vermont town is enough to make her feel alien. Suddenly, Mimi's appearance is all anyone notices. She struggles to fit in with her classmates, even as she fights for her right to stand out by entering science competitions and joining shop class instead of home ec. And even though teachers and neighbors balk at her mixed-race family and her refusals to conform, Mimi's dreams of becoming an astronaut never fade-no matter how many times she's told no.

    This historical middle-grade novel is told in poems from Mimi's perspective over the course of one year in her new town, and shows listeners that positive change can start with just one person speaking up.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 22, 2019
    ISBN9781541432338
    Full Cicada Moon
    Author

    Marilyn Hilton

    Marilyn Hilton grew up in Massachusetts in a nest of family filled with a delightful abundance of cousins. From her father she learned to explore New England’s back roads, and from her mother she learned to look beyond what can be seen. She has published numerous short stories, poems, and essays as well as a nonfiction book for tween girls. Found Things is her first novel. Marilyn now makes her home in Northern California with her husband and three children, where she writes, tap dances, and finds miracles on life’s back roads.

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    • 4/5
      I really liked this book because it shows a character facing adversity in many areas without feeling hokey or forced. None of the bullying or prejudice is so bad it's unbelievable, and the subtlety is realistic while still getting the point across. The main character is also a great representative of women who desire to go into STEM. Even though the book is set in 1969, many women still face difficulty and discrimination in the sciences.
    • 4/5
      children's fiction in verse (4th grade-8th grade); historical fiction (Vermont in late 1960s) with ethnic identity and gender role issues as perceived in the 60s--i.e., girls not being allowed to take shop and boys not being allowed to take home ec. This is one of the few books written in poetry form that I actually liked, and Mimi's voice does feel authentic for her age and time period. Lots of kids will be able to identify with her having being asked repeatedly and rudely "what are you?" and the issues (civil rights protests, japanese internment, race issues) are handled very gently.
    • 5/5
      Loved this book!
    • 4/5
      Mimi moves with her mother from Berkley, CA to Vermont to join her dad who has taken a position as a college professor. Written in poetry, this novel gets to the heart of being asked about identity and race. Often it is an intrusion. Mimi is Japanese from her mother, African-America from her father and as she says all me. She is passionate about science and space. There are issues about gender equity explored too. It's a struggle at first, but Mimi finds her way along with some good friends.
    • 5/5
      I read thus in less than 24 hours, so good.
      This is also a 2015 middle school novel and a Newbery 2016 possible in my opinion.I think the cover is just exquisite.
      Great book about acceptance and tolerance. The historical parts added so much to the story; the moon landing, Martin Luther King Jr., etc.

      This beautiful book is written In free verse. The narrator is Mimi Yoshiko Oliver revealing her seventh grade year at a new school in 1969 Vermont. Mimi's family has moved from Berkley California, where her father is a professor at a small college. Mimi’s ethnicity puzzles people: on the first day of school, a classmate asks, “What are you?” a question Mimi often hears: “I am/ half my Japanese mother,/ half my Black father,/ and all me.” Her father advises, “ ‘be kind, be respectful, and persist.’/ ‘Like raindrops on granite,’ I say,/ because we know that’s how I persist—/ drip, drip, drip/ until the granite cracks.” Mimi makes friends, excels academically, and dreams of being an astronaut; however, “I feel like I have to be/ twice as smart and funny at school/ and twice as nice and forgiving in my neighborhood.” Throughout the year, Mimi confronts obstacles; when told that girls take home economics and boys take shop, she politely and repeatedly protests this rule, eventually engaging in civil disobedience. When the school suspends her for two weeks. During her absence, her classmates organize a sit-in. All the boys go to home EC and the girls to shop.
    • 4/5
      A terrific story about a multi racial girl who moves to a small town in Vermont in the 1960s. She's smart and wants to grow up to be an astronaut. The story is told in free verse which give an opportunity for lovely lyrical language and metaphors but also might make it less accessible to some kids.