Imagine a world where you couldn’t see the sun or stars. This is the experience readers will have when reading the latest title, Over the Moon (Scholastic Press, March 26, 2019) written by Natalie Lloyd. At the end, you have tears in your eyes, again. Even though you know the characters, setting and plot, your sensory experience is still exquisite. Upon the second reading, you pause and place small markers at sentences and paragraphs, profound and timeless.

When you are done, the sense of triumph is so complete and sincere, you have no choice. When you complete a captivating title with compelling characters in a scene similar to your own, or one you can easily visualize, heightened with elements of possibility, you can't turn the pages fast enough. At the same time these places and scores of other locations are figuratively identical in having the Dust, yellow-eyed monsters, and feeling the absence and silence of riders and weavers of light. There are many places in our world literally mirroring the book's setting of mountains and mining, dense forests and valleys with rivers. The characters, compelling in every respect, embody all that is right and good and true and shades of the opposite, too. Maybe she'll even find the magic she needs to dream again.But the situation proves even more dangerous when Mallie uncovers a sinister mystery at the heart of Coal Top's struggles - a mystery some powerful people will do anything to protect.įrom beginning to end every moment is captivating. But now nothing can penetrate Coal Top's blanket of sorrow.So when Mallie is chosen for a dangerous competition in which daring (and ideally, orphaned) children train flying horses, she jumps at the chance. They'd wear these dreaming clothes to sleep and wake up with the courage to seek adventure. Before the Dust came, the people of Coal Top could weave starlight into cloth. Mallie can't bear the idea of that kind of life, but her family is counting on her wages to survive.It wasn't always this way.

In Coal Top, you live the story you're given: boys toil in the mines and girls work as servants. The highly anticipated new novel from Natalie Lloyd, the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of A Snicker of Magic!Twelve-year-old Mallie knows better than to dream.

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