Contents
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Flying to Vermont–January 1, 1969
Hatsuyume
Waxing Gibbous
Reflections
Arriving
New House
First Night
Like Saturday
Next Door Boy
Ready for School
First Day
Rules
Shop
Getting to Know You
Obento
Hungry
Journal
Notions
Science Class
Little Lies
Downtown
Farmer Dell
Others
Winter
Karen and Kim
Cooties
Notes
Detention
Science Project
Stars
February Vacation
The Soda Jerk
A Girl Who Twirls
Skating Pond
Rendezvous
Snowfall
Snow Day
The Mouse Takes the Cheese
Consequences
Tears on Glass
Life in 1968
A New Outlook
Spring 1969
Crocuses in the Snow
Kimono
Relocation
Liars
Moving Forward
Stacey’s Birthday
Light and Dark
If I Had a Hammer
Poults
Math
Something Important
April Vacation
Inheritance
April Moon
Hope
Secrets
Weirdos
Sea of Tranquility
Sign of Spring
Water and Dirt
One-Way
Mama’s Visitor
Spatial Reasoning
Looking Forward
Kind Of
Moon Viewing
The A Group
Best Friends Always
Dress, Hair, and Makeup
Spring Thing
Science Groove
No Words
Full Missing Moon
Bad Dreams
Learning Japanese
Party Snacks
The End of the Beginning
Summer 1969
The Question
Pie, the Moon, and Stacey
Magicicadas
Apollo 11
Room of Kings
Remember This Night
The Real Thing
The Answer
Good News and Sadness
Language
Tilling
Babysitting Baby Cake
Going Home
Jitter Legs
One Small Step
Eighth Grade
New Boy
We’re Having Mr. Pease for Lunch
How to Make Corn Bread
Victor
Crush
Fall 1969
Sit-in
Civil Disobedience
The Principal’s Office
Suspended
Fine
Bad News
The Way We Say Good-bye: One
The Way We Say Good-bye: Two
Reformed
Switched
Promises
Where’s Pattress?
Wheels
Words
Pardons
Homework
Thanksgiving
Winter Again
Another Try
Winter Magic
Welcome Back
The Party’s Over
Since Never
Making Sushi
Decisions
Best Prize
Shopping
In the Mirror
Excuses
The Exchange
Expressions
Visitors
Gifts of the Magi
Oshogatsu—January 1, 1970
Confessions
Vermont Neighbors
Full House
This Year and Last Year
Adventure
Full Cicada Moon
Acknowledgments
Glossary of Japanese words in FULL CICADA MOON
Word List