When Lucy Moon spots injustice, she speaks out against it loudly and proudly. Her strong sense of activism has pegged her as "that girl" and sometimes gets her into trouble as when she widely protests the closure of Wiggins Hill, a popular sledding hill. But fighting for justice is emotionally tiring work and Lucy begins to doubt her efforts especially as her mother's trip to pursue photography becomes a months-long absence. Lucy is spirited and indefatigable, a reassuring figure for young activist geeks and a model for those who wonder if they could make a change in the world. ( )

What events and people caused the main character to change?
Lucy Moon's life is starting to roll downwards, after the incident where the snow hill is closed, Lucy tries to protest by sending letters and asking her whole school to help, but instead, the whole school just made fun of it, making fun of Lucy Moon. Then Lucy got in big trouble with the principal. Now that she has to go to camp where she has to do chores (instead of getting suspended for a week), she starts to lose her best-friend Zoe because she got a new friend and hangs out with her more than Lucy, so now Lucy feels like a loner. Can things get any worse? Unfortuantly it can, it's already Christmas and her mom promised her she'll be home, but instead she said she was too busy, day after day, Lucy's mom always promised her she'll be home soon, but after so many weeks of broken promises, Lucy starts to get frustrated, she's starting to get mad so she ignores her mom and avoids her by any contact whether it's phone calls or letters sent home, she just simply never replies. So now, 1. She has to go to camp for 3 months. 2. She's never going to see her mom. And 3. She just lost her bestest friend.
Lucy Moon has to do something before anything gets worse, she just has to! Because she's Lucy Moon. ( )

This book is about Lucy Moon. Lucy Moon is a girl that is in the sixth grade. Her Mom Leaves for a trip and does not return because he does not enjoy her father. That is the least of the problems. The sledding hill is closed! She prints papers of who she thinks are suspects. All the things she does wrong this year she is getting i trouble for.

Reviewed by Me for TeensReadToo.com

During the entire time I spent reading THAT GIRL LUCY MOON, I kept having the feeling that Lucy, the main character, was a girl who reminded me of someone else. Some other young girl that I'd read about in another book; someone similar, and yet different. Finally, it came to me. Lucy Moon reminds me of that wonderful free spirit, Stargirl Caraway, from Jerry Spinelli's award-winning young adult novel, STARGIRL. Believe me, this isn't a bad thing. If you've read STARGIRL, you'll know what I mean. If you haven't, that's okay, because you're about to get a big does of free spirit-ism, activism, elitism, and a whole bunch of other -ism's when you dive into your copy of THAT GIRL LUCY MOON.

Having just started middle school, Lucy quickly realizes that she's stepped foot on another planet--and that all of her schoolmates have suddenly turned into hormone-driven, soul-spitting aliens. Up until now, Lucy has always been a girl who has known her place in the world, has known her purpose and the things that drive her. She's always known that her parents love her (her mother, the equally free spirited artist, and her father, who can sometimes be distant), that it's her destiny to fight for those who can't fight for themselves, and that her best friend, Zoe, will always be by her side.

Lucy's defense of her green and yellow hemp hat is soon forgotten, though, when two kids from her school are arrested for sledding on Wiggins Hill. When the owner of said hill, Miss Ilene Viola Wiggins, goes so far as to put a fence up around the best sledding place in town, some type of action needs to be taken. So begins Lucy's new pursuit--getting her fellow classmates, and the entire town, to see that what Miss Wiggins is doing is wrong. But this activism doesn't immediately win her any friends; she is, in fact, ostracized by her school friends, threatened by the principal, and, in general, tormented because of her beliefs.

When you add in that Lucy's mother has somehow turned a picture-taking trip into a vacation from parenting, and that her dad doesn't seem to know what to do about it, what you end up with is an adolescent girl who has a lot on her shoulders. The joy of THAT GIRL LUCY MOON isn't just that it's a delightful coming of age story, or even that the "fight" against Miss Wiggins is a lesson in activism. The true gem, the delight that makes THAT GIRL LUCY MOON such a wonderful novel, is the very real feelings of hope and discouragement that mingle inside of the free spirit that is Lucy. Although similar to the aforementioned Stargirl, Lucy is a girl unlike any other you'll ever read about. For that alone you need to pick up a copy of THAT GIRL LUCY MOON, and find out for yourself just what type of heroine Lucy is. You might even realize that, inside of all of us, is that same hope mixed with discouragement that makes us human. ( )

You'll root for Lucy as she takes on the powers that be. ( )