Full Cicada Moon Marilyn Hilton Get the bookReport a mistake

Full Cicada Moon

by Marilyn Hilton · 2015

Inside Out and Back Again meets One Crazy Summer and Brown Girl Dreaming in this novel-in-verse about fitting in and standing up for what’s right It's 1969, and the Apollo 11 mission is getting ready to go to the moon.… more

8 quotes ★ 4.30 (6,261) Historical

Quotes from the Book

And then I realized you were not rebellious but courageous. You know what that means? It means being scared but doing it anyway.

So, I have to know," he says, "what are you?" But just because he has to know doesn't mean I have to tell him anything.

Our dreams are a serious matter. When you take them seriously, everyone else does too.

Even now, that day reminds me that raindrops are stronger than hammers.

Like raindrops on granite," I say, because we know that's how I persist-- drip, drip, drip until the granite cracks.

Thank you, Mr. MacDougall. You're a real credit to your race.

I’ve decided . . . there are jerks and nice people everywhere. And you just have to hope you meet fewer jerks.” Then I say, “And try not to be one.

Papa said to remember this night. But he doesn't have to worry, because I will never forget it.

Watch on YouTube

Carmel Clay Public LibraryFull Cicada Moon by Marilyn Hilton
Patricia Warnock-SaffordFull Cicada Moon by Marilyn Hilton
DIT Labs - Fairfax County Public Schools"Full Cicada Moon" Book Talk

About Marilyn Hilton

We have collected 8 quotes from 1 book by Marilyn Hilton on BookQuoters.

More about the author →

About the book

Inside Out and Back Again meets One Crazy Summer and Brown Girl Dreaming in this novel-in-verse about fitting in and standing up for what’s right

It's 1969, and the Apollo 11 mission is getting ready to go to the moon. But for half-black, half-Japanese Mimi, moving to a predominantly white Vermont town is enough to make her feel alien. Suddenly, Mimi's appearance is all anyone notices. She struggles to fit in with her classmates, even as she fights for her right to stand out by entering science competitions and joining Shop Class instead of Home Ec. And even though teachers and neighbors balk at her mixed-race family and her refusals to conform, Mimi’s dreams of becoming an astronaut never fade—no matter how many times she’s told no.

This historical middle-grade novel is told in poems from Mimi's perspective over the course of one year in her new town, and shows readers that positi