The Moon by Night: Book Two of The Austin Family Chronicles [Paperback]

Book two of the Austin Family Chronicles, an award-winning young adult series from Madeleine LEngle, author ofA Wrinkle in Time, about a girl who experiences the difficulties and joys of growing up.

Everyone who remembersMeet the Austinsas a delightful family story will want to read . . . this wise, beautifully written novel. Chicago Tribune

As if simply being fourteen-years-old weren't bad enoughwhat with the usual teenage angst and uncertainty, Vicky Austin's always comforting and reliable home life is changing completely. Her brother John is going off to college in the fall. Maggy, an orphan taken in by the Austins two years ago, has gone to live with her legal guardian. And the rest of Vicky's family is moving from their quiet house in the country to the heart of New York City.

But before the big move, the entire Austin family is taking a meandering trip across the country in their station wagon, stopping to camp along the way, with no set schedule and not a single night of camping experience among them.

Wild animal attacks. Life-threatening natural disasters. Cute boys on the prowl. Anything can happen in the great outdoors.

Praise forThe Moon by Night:

Idealistic and wise, this is also absorbing reading and very much a story of today. The Horn Book Magazine

Everyone who remembersMeet the Austinsas a delightful family story will want to read its successor. . . . Vicky, groping painfully for answers, finding help from many sources, will strike chords of sympathy and understanding in her contemporaries, who are certain to find comfort and satisfaction in this wise, beautifully written novel. Chicago Tribune

The Austin family spends the summer on a cross-country camping trip . . . Vicky, now almost 15,' tells the story, and the reader feels a strong personal identification with the thoughts and emotions of thilc"