Author: Angela Johnson
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Title: A Cool Moonlight
Genre: family life
Sub genre: fiction
Theme: Skin disease, sisters
Primary and secondary characters: Lila, Elizabeth and Alyssa
Date: 2003
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Publisher Company: Dial Books
Brief summary on how to use for students: This book can be used in the classroom to show how people can be different but you can still get along. Everyone has feelings and nobody should be shunned for having something that cannot be helped. Can have students read independently in class.
Summary: Lila is an eight year old who suffers from a rare sun allergy xeroderma pigmentosum. Sunlight burns her skin and can even cause her to go blind, so Lila lives in darkened rooms and is involved in many nighttime adventures. She sleeps during the day and attends school in her own dim kitchen. She waits each evening for sunset and darkness, when she can go outside to play and explore her neighborhood. Even at night, she must slather herself with sunscreen, wear sunglasses and cover up. On lonely nights she is visited by her two imaginary friends who dance and tell her wonderful stories. She has a plan to be able to touch the sun by her ninth birthday. But in the end she realizes that it is okay to be the way she is.
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