time of the Moon - David Almond 
Recently, much has happened in Michael's life. His sister is far too early and then come with a life-threatening heart defect. And then his family has just moved from a community setting in an old and very House for restoration. Although he still remained in his old school to keep his friends, Michael feels in his new surroundings yet not at home. His parents have little time for him, because his is absorbed by his terminally ill sister and his father works late into the night at their new home, so she new as a family soon, more joyful chapter must turn in their lives. Not an easy situation for a twelve year old boy who was in a transitional phase of his life again and again between his feelings, his urge to prove to his friends, balancing his spirit of discovery back and forth.
But the new site contains some surprises. One learns about Michael relatively quickly after the move the neighbor girl Mina. She lives alone in the house next door with her mother and does not go to school because her mother taught himself quickly built up a close friendship between the two, Michael even to his friends defended vigorously.
But the biggest surprise is waiting in the old ramshackle shed next to the house of Michael. Although this is much danger of collapse and his parents have forbidden him to enter, Michaels curiosity can not rest. He explores the garage and discovered from old chests, tea boxes and other junk a strange creature.
I thought he was dead, he sat with legs stretched out there, his head was leaning against the wall after intensive. He was covered with dust and spider webs like everything else and his face was thin and pale. Dead flies were on his hair and shoulders. "
they quickly realize Michael that emanates from this being any danger and he and Mina friends even with Skellig, because that's the name of the essence. It to nourish and make sure that it is regaining his strength and make a further discovery.
"Time of the Moon" is a very compassionate book that children of Michael, but also people at the age of Baghira or even much older people respond, because the hinfortgetragen feeling of lightness and the desire to be on their own wings and see the world from a new perspective, all of us is probably as familiar as the concurrent sense of connection and closeness with the people you love.
