What the Moon Saw - Laura Resau

    This six weeks for my outside reading project I was fortunate to have chosen a wonderful book called What the Moon Saw, by Laura Resau. The book was published in 2006, and Is a realistic fiction. The book is based in the little village of Yacuyoo, Mexico. On a girl named Clara Luna, Clear moon, she is sent to Mexico for a summer to live with her grandparents. It's her first time in Mexico and Clara is in for a huge lifestyle change. The theme in my point of view is not judge things before you even try them because you might end up liking them. For example, Clara convinced herself that she would hate Yucuyoo, Mexico before she even tried to go there. When she actually went she ended up liking Mexico and enjoyed. Another theme is not to judge people for their appearance because Abuelita found this prisoner that she ended up learning a lot about.

    The story is told in first person which means the author used words like I, me and you can hear all of Clara's thoughts. The book would mostly try to attract teens. Mostly because is based on a teenager that's going through a lot of lifestyle changes in her life. In the book Resau uses lot of details to attract the readers. For example when she explained Abuelitas life it felt like you were re-living her whole life again.

    I think out of all the biggest thing that affected me was the theme because it's really important not to judge anyone or anything. It changed a little bit of the way I think because now i feel that if I'm trying or seeing something or the first time I shouldn't judge it even if it's weird looking. The memories that came shooting right out of my head when I was realizing the theme was when I was little and I had to go to Mexico but I didn't want to because if t seemed scary and weird.

    Overall not going to lie this was a pretty good book. Details were spot on. Although at some spots I did kind of want to give up on the book because it got boring and weird. I would recommend this book to teens or even adults because it really does have some interesting Mexican lifestyle/traditional parts in the book. 

Gabriela Reyna
11/7/13
Rating: 4.5/5