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Moon Pie (2011)

by Simon Mason(Favorite Author)

3.74 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0385752350 (ISBN13: 9780385752350)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

David Fickling Books

review 1: I actually liked this book more than I thought I would. I picked up this book at one of those Little Free Library stands, solely because the cover looked cute and it's been a while since I've read a children's story. I also really loved the title, (I love anything that has to do with the moon and stars). Reading the back of the book, I thought this was going to be a completely different story than it wound up being. It started out slow and I wasn't sure I was going to be able to get into it, but I kept reading it and I'm glad I did, because it got significantly more interesting a little more than a quarter of the way through. Though this is a children's story, it covers a very dark topic, that topic being alcoholism. Told through the eyes of a young eleven year old whose m... moreother recently passed away, she struggles to "keep her head" while taking care of her five year old brother and trying to help her alcoholic father quit his habit. I think this is a very good story for the age group of about ten to thirteen years old. The author, Simon Mason, did a really good job at showing how alcoholism can affect a family and how there's always a beacon of light out there, you just have to keep aiming for it.
review 2: The cover of this book makes you think it is for 3rd or 4th graders, but this really should be read by older children. The protagonist of the book is an 11-year-old girl, so I think maybe 6th or 7th graders would be able to handle the topic of alcoholism and its impact on a family. The story here is of Martha, who, with her mother recently dead, is left to try to keep her family together. But Dad is acting strange and it gets harder and harder for Martha to take care of her little brother. The reader is quite a bit into the book when you realize Dad has become an alcoholic. The author handles the issue in a matter-of-fact way so that you are almost surprised at the dissolution of Martha's family. less

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