Beneath a Meth Moon

by Jacqueline Woodson

Book Overview

Laurel Daneau has moved on to a new life, in a new town, but inside she's still reeling from the loss of her beloved mother and grandmother after Hurricane Katrina washed away their home. Laurel's new life is going well, with a new best friend, a place on the cheerleading squad and T-Boom, co-captain of the basketball team, for a boyfriend. Yet Laurel is haunted by voices and memories from her past.

When T-Boom introduces Laurel to meth, she...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399252509
• ISBN13: 9780399252501
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Nancy Paulsen Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Hopeful

"This is an elegy ... and prayer for the ones who didn't make it." Of her work, Woodson says "I started researching and trying to find the happy ending and realizing I needed to write my own happy ending be ause so many [endings for meth addicts] were not happy. Laurel's is a hopeful story... she has a deep internal strength... I like to believe this deep strength exists in all of us." This is a heartaching story of a girl who lost her mother and grandmother in Hurricane Katrina's flood waters. Then, she loses herself to meth, to the light of the moon and its false happiness. As usual, Woodson's captures her characters clearly and writes something that will enthrall you, disgust you, bring you to tears, and lift you to hope.