And, for my sister, Jennie—for all the tamago, “head things,” and trips to the Cape we can stand.
Thank you to Mom and Dad, who brought me to the Cape for our wonderful vacations. You showed Jennie and me the best place on Earth and always encouraged us to reach for the stars, no matter how high.
I discovered Jim Morrison and The Doors on the Fourth of July, the year of my thirtieth birthday. I heard Moonlight Drive on the beach and within weeks had sped through the entire catalogue of albums and read four biographies. The poetry, the music, and the sheer passion that The Doors embodied weaved itself into the fabric of my life. I got to see Ray Manzarek and Robbie Krieger play live in 2011, just two years before Ray passed away. It has been my honor, even in some small way, to continue the legacy of The Doors through Bean’s story.
For me, this quote is the heartbeat of Between Us and the Moon:
“I tell you this. No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.”—Jim Morrison
Thank you: Jim, Ray, Robbie, and John—for all of it.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
REBECCA MAIZEL hails from Rhode Island, where she teaches literature at her alma mater the Wheeler School. She tries not to force her students to read her books, though. Rebecca is the author of several published novels for young adults, and recently received an MFA in Writing for Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Visit her online at www.rebeccamaizel.com.
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Cover art © 2015 by Felicia Simion
Hand lettering © 2015 by Kelsey Phillips
Cover design by Michelle Taormina
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BETWEEN US AND THE MOON. Copyright © 2015 by Rebecca Maizel. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Maizel, Rebecca.
Between us and the moon / Rebecca Maizel. — First edition.
pages cm
Summary: Just before spending her sixteenth summer on Cape Cod, Sarah’s boyfriend breaks up with her and, as a scientist whose focus is on winning a scholarship through her study of a comet, she designs an experiment to become more like her older sister to see if she, too, can be popular.
ISBN 978-0-06-232761-1 (hardcover)
[1. Popularity—Fiction. 2. Dating (Social customs)—Fiction. 3. Experiments—Fiction. 4. Sisters—Fiction. 5. Astronomy—Fiction. 6. Family life—Massachusetts—Fiction. 7. Cape Cod (Mass.)—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.M279515Bet 2015 2014034847
[Fic]—dc23 CIP
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