What the Moon Saw

Clara Lunas name means clear moon in Spanish. But lately her headhas felt anything but clear. One day a letter comes from Mexico written inSpanish Dear Clara We... » 

Clara Lunas name means clear moon in Spanish. But lately her headhas felt anything but clear. One day a letter comes from Mexico written inSpanish Dear Clara We invite you to our house for the summer. We will waitfor you on the day of the full moon in June at the Oaxaca airport. Love yourgrandparents.Fourteenyearold Clara has never met her fathers parents. She knows he snuckover the border from Mexico as a teenager but beyond that she knows almostnothing about his childhood. When she agrees to go shes stunned by hergrandparents life they live in simple shacks in the mountains of southernMexico where most people speak not only Spanish but an indigenous languageMixteco.The village of Yucuyoo holds other surprises too like the spirit waterfallwhich is heard but never seen. And Pedro an intriguing young goatherder whowants to help Clara find the waterfall. Hearing her grandmothers adventuroustales of growing up as a healer awakens Clara to the magic in Yucuyoo and inher own soul. What The Moon Saw is an enchanting story of discovering yourtrue self in the most unexpected place. «