Everything you need to understand or teach Shooting the Moon by Frances O'Roark Dowell.
Shooting the Moon is a novel by Edgar Award-winning author Frances O'Roark Dowell. The story follows the main character, Jamie Dexter, as she transitions from a 12-year-old girl to a teenager while her older brother enlists in the Army and heads off to Vietnam. When Jamie is moping around the house over the summer because her two best friends have moved away with their families, she gets a job at rec...