What is the author's style in Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool?

The main part of the novel is told in the first person point of view, taking on the voice of a twelve-year-old girl who is mature beyond her age as she struggles with the abandonment of her father. However, the story of Jinx and Ned is told in a third person point of view that takes the narrator out of the story and provides the distance required for Abilene to understand she is getting an unbiased version of the facts. Later, however, the story turns deeply personal, and Abilene pieces together information that could have biased the story, but did not, showing the reader the depth of character in the narrator. For these reasons, the two different types of point of view in this novel work well together to tell a strong, well formed story.