The Half-a-Moon Inn

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Summary: Will Aaron escape or will he be stuck there forever?
Review: 12 year old Aaron Patrick has a disability. His mother decides to go to the market. A blizzard wipes the road clean and Aaron goes looking for her. He finds a strange man, who takes him to the Half-A-Moon-Inn. The evil director, an old lady them keeps him there for a reason unknown to Aaron. Her name is Miss Grackle. Will he escape her and her willow switch? Will he run away from poking around in people's dreams? Buy and find out!

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Summary: Half-A-Moon Inn
Review: The Half-A-Moon Inn is a great story because it teaches that everybody has to grow up soon or later.
This book is about a boy named Aaron who goes looking for his mother when she doesn't come home. This is the first time he has been home alone because of his muteness. When his mother doesn't come back on his birthday he gets worried and goes after her into the woods that are near his house. In the woods he gets tangled with a ragman and then has to work for an old lady that owns an inn. When his mother finds out that he left the house she went around looking for him and stopped in at the inn. The mother recognizes right away that one of the things the the inn keeper had and figured she had seen him.
At the part where Aaron doesn't stay at the house, I think that he should've stayed because his mother said to never leave sight of the house. I also think he should've locked the door when he went to bed worrying about his mother.
I would recommend this book to my friend who likes adventures and stories that have wicked,horrible,and terrible people in them. I recommend this boo k to her because she also likes sad and scary stories.
I like this story an,d t.hat is why I hope that whoever reads it will like it too.

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Summary: The Half-A-Moon Inn
Review: This book is about a boy who was born mute. He has just turned 12 and his mother decided that she should go to the market without him, and she left him at home overnight. When she doesn't come back, he gets worried. He decides to go out looking for her. He gets into lots of trouble and can't seem to find her anywhere.He finds an Inn, and thinks it might help, but it only leads him into much more trouble.

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Summary: The Half-A-Moon Inn
Review: This is, at its heart, a tale of adventure and danger undertaken by a mute boy named Aaron. When his mother doesn't return from her journey, Aaron sets off in search of her, braving the dangerous woods and uncertain terrain of winter. When he stays a night at the Half-A-Moon Inn, he becomes a prisoner of the unscrupulous proprieteress, Mrs. Grackle. Aaron is a virtual slave--unable to tell anyone his plight and forced to help Mrs. Grackle as she spies into her guests dreams. It's up to Aaron to use his wits and courage to figure out a way out of this situation.

This is one of those, "what happens next?" stories that keep you reading and [pull] you in until the last page. And perhaps the best part of this story is the proactive young hero. Aaron's adventure comes about because of his own choices and his own abilities. Young readers will readily identify with the young man and feel his frustrations and triumphs. While the story is certainly one of the "coming of age" variety, it is also a hearty adventure tale. This is a fabulous read-aloud to share with younger children.

Although published in 1980, this book is timeless in its appeal. Like any good fairy tale, or adventure, the hero wins out and the villains get their come-uppance. This is a valuable addition to my library!

^_^ Happy reading!
shanshad

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Summary: The Half A Moon Inn
Review: What 11 year old boy wouldn't want to stay home alone. I thought. Aaron has a difficult life because he is mute, and wouldn't want to be home alone.
Aaron is scared to be left alone because he is mute, and it could be dangerous for him.
I felt like if I was inside Aarons shoes because I felt sad for him when his mom didn't come back. When we read this book I thought it was a wonderful and sad novel because at the end Aaron found his mom.
I recommend this novel to everyone that will like to enjoy Paul Fleischman's stories/novels.I think that people who likes sad novels would like Paul Fleischman's stories because of his feelings.