cover image Promise Me the Moon

Promise Me the Moon

Thomas Hoobler, Joyce Annette Barnes. Puffin Books, $4.99 (176pp) ISBN 978-0-14-038040-8

Now in eighth grade, the heroine of The Baby Grand, the Moon in July, and Me still plans on being the first African-American woman to land on the moon, but problems closer to home demand her attention; this story is ""as warm and involving as its predecessor,"" said PW. Ages 8-12. (Jan.)