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Frances O’Roark Dowell

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Frances O’Roark Dowell is the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Dovey Coe, which won the Edgar Award and the William Allen White Award; Where I’d Like to Be; The Secret Language of Girls and its sequels The Kind of Friends We Used to Be and The Sound of Your Voice, Only Really Far Away; Chicken Boy; Shooting the Moon, which was awarded the Christopher Medal; the Phineas L. MacGuire series; Falling In; the critically acclaimed The Second Life of Abigail Walker; Anybody Shining; Ten Miles Past Normal; Trouble the Water; and most recently the Sam the Man series. She lives with her family in Durham, North Carolina. Connect with Frances online at FrancesDowell.com.

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Shooting the Moon
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Shooting the Moon

Chapter Book · Ages 10–14 · 2008

A young girl discovers harsh truths about war and family through her brother's photos from Vietnam.

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Shooting the Moon
Sale price
$1699

Shooting the Moon

Chapter Book · Ages 10–14 · 2008

A young girl discovers harsh truths about war and family through her brother's photos from Vietnam.

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