Cover of BENEATH A METH MOON by Jacqueline Woodson
BOOK JACKET BLURB: Laurel would do anything to turn back time—to tell her mother and grandmother not to stay home near the beach with a hurricane coming. To say no when her boyfriend, T-Boom, the co-captain of the basketball team, offers her that first hit of moon—the drug that makes her feel bigger than all she’s lost. To have been there for her little brother and her best friend, Kaylee, when they needed her, instead of chasing the moon. But she can’t. All she can do is move forward now. And only she can decide whether to face the pain and joy that is part of living, or follow the moon to numbness and probably death. Only she can decide to choose to be there for her family and friends—or give them another thing to grieve.
Published by Penguin/Nancy Paulsen, 2012, $16.99
192 pages
Release date: February 2, 2012
ISBN: 9780399252501
Awards:
Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Books of 2012
YALSA 2013 Best Fiction for Young Adults
YALSA Top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2013
REVIEWS:
Publishers Weekly, January 2, 2012
Teenreads, March 23, 2012
The Horn Book, March 27, 2012
School Library Journal, September 28, 2012
Booklist, December 15, 2011
Kirkus, December 20, 2011
INTERVIEWS:
Studio 360, March 2, 2012
Publisher’s Weekly, January 19, 2012
School Library Journal, October 9, 2012
RELATED ARTICLES:
L.A. Times, February 12, 2012
Washington Post, March 13, 2012
Teenreads.com, March 23, 2012
Syracuse / The Post-Standard, March 1, 2013
AUTHOR’S WEB PRESENCE:
Author’s Website: http://www.jacquelinewoodson.com/
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Woodson
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackieWoodson
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BeneathAMethMoon
Penguin Features: http://www.us.penguingroup.com/static/pages/yr/features/woodson/index.html
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- Miracle’s Boys
- Peace, Locomotion
- If You Come Softly
- After Tupac and D Foster
- From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
- Lena
- I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This
- The Dear One
- Visiting Day
- Coming On Home Soon
- Our Gracie Aunt
- Between Madison and Palmetto
- The Other Side
- Hush
- Show Way
- Each Kindness
- Pecan Pie Baby
- We Had a Picnic This Sunday Past
