Mira is also friends with Morgan and Isabel. She buys a lot of sugared cereal and enjoys eating the tuna salad at Last Chance. She makes cards that are for people that have lost their loved ones.

Her mom ships her off to her aunt's house in Colby, North Carolina for the summer, and the relationships and connections that she makes there help her realize that she is actually worth something, and help her gain self-confidence. Most of the kids at her school back home alienate her because Caroline Dawes and her friends spread a vicious rumor about her hooking up with Chase Mercer, the new guy at school, on a golf course. When her mother became a famous exercise guru, she shed her weight but not her insecurity.

Nicole 'Colie' Sparks – The protagonist of the novel, a 15-year-old girl.

In the end, Colie falls in love with Norman and while watching the eclipse of the moon they try to help Morgan to get over the break-up from her long-time boyfriend. She is able to stand up to her and gets the number of her handsome cousin. During the festivities for the Fourth of July, Colie encounters the girl which spread the rumors at her school. In the course of a painting project, she and Norman get closer. Also, she enjoys staying with her eccentric but warm-hearted aunt. Over time, her initial defensiveness vanishes and they become friends.

At first, Colie is very dismissive but later regularly helps out in the restaurant. Soon after her arrival Colie gets to know Morgan and Isabel who serve as waitresses in the Last Chance Diner where Norman is working as cook. In her hometown Charlotte, Colie is an outsider as she used to be very overweight and, after losing weight, mean rumors about her being easy to get were spread.Īfter Colie arrives at the train station in Colby, she is picked up by Norman, Mira’s subtenant. Having endured a tough time at school, Colie is not looking forward to Colby. While her mother, a famous television fitness coach, is on promotion tour in Europe, fifteen-year-old Colie has to spend the summer holidays with her aunt Mira in Colby, North Carolina. It is her third novel and was first published in 1999. Keeping the Moon is a young adult novel by author Sarah Dessen.

Keeping the moon by sarah dessen