Deep roots. Last year in Social Studies, Miss Matattall got us to draw our family trees. Mine was the only one with no roots and just one full branch for me, plus a half branch for Moonbeam. Because maybe she's already dead, and that's why she didn't come back to get me.
Katie is a left-out foster kid who knows next to nothing about her family tree. She doesn’t like change, she’s a little confused, a little disconnected, but she’s determined to find her real mother.
Set in the historic town of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Talking to the Moon is a stirring story about family, history and identity. New friends provide clues to Katie’s past - including some remarkable letters from one of the original settlers, a girl her age who was uprooted, forced to transplant herself, more than 260 years ago.
No longer left out because she's on the autism spectrum, Katie gradually begins to get a sense of belonging, and just maybe, a sense of who she really is.