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A cool moonlight

Nine-year-old Lila, born with xeroderma pigmentosum, a skin disease that make her sensitive to sunlight, makes secret plans to feel the sun's rays on her tenth birthday.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Johnson, Angela, 1961-
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Dial Books, 2003.
Subjects:	Skin > Diseases > Juvenile fiction. Sisters > Juvenile fiction. Imaginary friends > Juvenile Fiction. Sun > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:	Nine-year-old Lila, born with xeroderma pigmentosum, a skin disease that make her sensitive to sunlight, makes secret plans to feel the sun's rays on her tenth birthday.
Physical Description:	133 p. ; 19 cm.
ISBN:	0803728468
Author Notes:	Angela Johnson was born on June 18, 1961 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She attended Kent State University and worked with Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) as a child development worker. She has written numerous children's books including Tell Me a Story, Mama, Shoes like Miss Alice, Looking for Red, A Cool Moonlight and Lily Brown's Paintings. She won the Coretta Scott King Author's Award three times for Toning the Sweep in 1994, for Heaven in 1999, and for The First Part Last in 2004, which also won the Michael L. Printz Award. In 2003, she was named a MacArthur fellow. (Bowker Author Biography)