I have ended up waiting a couple of years to read this book. I kept waiting to find it in the used book store, but never did, so I finally just went ahead and bought it. Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig is a really good, touching, funny, thought-provoking book.
Ginny Moon is a novel about a thirteen year old girl who has autism and had been in the foster care system since she was nine years old. Ginny was now with her Forever Parents (adoptive parents) and was settling in as well as could be expected. She had friends at her school and was active in extracurricular events. However, when her Forever Mom became pregnant, it evoked all kinds of feelings and memories for Ginny, especially about how she had left her Baby Doll at her birth mother's home and didn't know if anyone was caring for it.
Her Forever Parents had rules for Ginny and one was that she was not allowed to use the internet because they were afraid she would try to find and communicate with her birth mother. So Ginny asked her friend at school to look up Gloria, her birth mother. They found her and began chatting with her. Ginny wanted to meet up with Gloria to get her Baby Doll back. And that was the start of Ginny's adventures.
Throughout the book, the reader slowly learns about Ginny's horrendous history, but also about her redemptive future. It's a wonderful story about the power of love and hope.
It was interesting to read the author's notes. He and his wife adopted a daughter with autism, and that's when the voice of Ginny began for him.
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