• Full Cicada Moon

  • By: Marilyn Hilton
  • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
  • Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (25 ratings)

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Full Cicada Moon

By: Marilyn Hilton
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
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Publisher's summary

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.

©2015 Marilyn Hilton (P)2019 Tantor

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slow start rolls into gold

after the first couple poems I almost dismissed it (because I'm ADHD and am a rough critic and hard to hook) but I am SO GLAD I kept going. It wasn't long before I couldn't put it down. The characters grow to such a depth I laughed and cried and I rarely do that!

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My 10 year grandgirl & I

listened to this marvelous book together. We soared through it with so many prompted discussions.... race, deep hurt, the draft, Vietnam, Bobby, love & drip, drip, drip ♡♡♡

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