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Moonflower by Kacen Callender book cover

Scholastic

9781338636598

STARRED REVIEW
Children's, Middle Grade

Moonflower

By Kacen Callender

Moonflower poses a big question—what is the purpose of being alive?—then invites readers to ponder their own responses as they follow protagonist Moon’s fantastical journey.

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Review of ‘Moonflower’

With Moonflower, National Book Award-winning author Kacen Callender (King and the Dragonflies) creates a surreal, dreamlike wonder of a novel.

Twelve-year-old Moon, who is Black and nonbinary, longs to leave the world of the living, where they have “a hard time being happy.” Every night, they…

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