It's not bad enough that 12 year old Moon Child is so different from other kids that he can't even play with them, but his father disappears into Nothingness, leaving him and his Mother alone in a village that doesn't allow single parents, and no matter how much he tries, he can't rid himself of the terrible, wonderful dreams he keeps having, dreams that are also against the laws of the village.
When Moon Child discovers a beautiful white flower that blooms only in the light of the moon, his entire life changes. His one and only friend turns out to have magical properties that Moon Child must learn to control in order to defeat and entomb the Moon Thief.
Moon Thief is a 325 page coming of age book for readers 12 and up. This edition is e-published.
Excerpt
Only one of these tiny flowers existed beyond our village. I wondered about its lonely life, why others did not grow around it. We had so much in common, the moonflower and I, especially our aloneness. Every Moon Night, I lay next to it, telling it of my troubles, my pain, my grief.
Like when my father died. All that night, while the Moon filled the sky with light, the moonflower listened while I cried, watering its gentle surface with my own salty tears.
Mother had come out that night, because she could not sleep. She worried she would lose me, too. She stood in awe of the moonflower, of its beauty, not understanding that her own beauty equaled that of the flower, only opposite. Her dark hair glimmered in the bright light sifting through the trees and her deep, blue eyes, so unlike my own pale ones, danced with the Moon. We made a pact that night that I would not go beyond the moonflower, just outside the village, so she could hear me, and wake in the night to save me, should trouble happen.
But one night, while silver moon beams rippled through the gently blowing trees, tiny lights dancing as though playing with us, I did not keep that pact.
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