Northward to the Moon by Polly Horvath, 256 pp, RL 5

Northward to the Moon , Polly Horvath's sequel to the amazing My 100 Adventures , finds main character Jane Fielding one summer later, one year older and one parent richer. The cover illustration by Matt Mahurin , who also created the cover art for Allison Croggon's YA fantasy quartet, The Books of Pellinor perfectly captures the movement of the book and the unifying metaphor of the book. When Northward to the Moon begins, thirteen year old Jane and her siblings Maya, Max and Herschel, all of whom have different, unnamed fathers, have spent a year living in Saskatchewan, seemingly a world away from their house on the beach in Massachusetts. Their mother, Pulitzer-prize winning poet, Felicity Fielding, has married Ned and moved her family across the continent and to another country because he has found a job teaching French in an elementary school. It is May and Ned has just been fired from his job because he doesn't know how to speak French and he and Jane are