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Synopsis
Holly feels rejected. Her cool, remote mother has dumped the thirteen-year-old on an aunt and uncle she barely knows, at a farm in southern England. Holly takes her flute to her aunt and uncle's old barn, and the notes of her instrument set off a mysterious hum from the back of the building. Perhaps she shouldn't have gone to investigate the sounds. Maybe she shouldn't have moved the pile of broken-down farm implements that blocked her path. But how else was she going to get that ancient-looking door open? Besides, somehow Holly can't help herself.
Is When Night Eats the Moon appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 10 and up.
A thirteen-year-old girl feeling rejected by her mother discovers a mysterious portal in her aunt and uncle's barn. Suitable for middle grade readers with mild peril and emotional themes of family abandonment.
What to know going in
This book has mild violence, no sexual content, and clean language. Content notes include abandonment.
Who'll love this
Readers will love the mystery of the magical door and following Holly as she discovers what lies beyond it.