Between Us and the Moon (28 page)

THANK YOU TO JOCELYN DAVIES. THERE IS NO ONE
I would rather hash out story lines and character with! Working with you has made this book even better than I could have envisioned. Thank you for your collaboration, respect, and for showing me just how lucky a writer can be.

Thank you Margaret Riley King at WME for loving this book and understanding just how much Bean’s story needed to be told. And, of course, to Chelsea Drake for your patience and support!

To Jacqueline McCleary, Brown University astrophysicist, for your unparalleled wisdom. You know it’s not fair to be that smart
and
that pretty, right? Bean’s story is stronger because of you.

To Bryant Grigsby, SETI scientist, for multiple annoying phone calls in which you had to explain way too complicated science to me. I attempted to keep up while you gave me your valuable expertise and time.

Thank you to Kate Madin and Hovey Clifford, WHOI staff. You are generous and without your expertise my story would have suffered.

To A.M. Jenkins and the power of “feeling it”—your mentorship means more to me than I could express.

To Franny Billingsley—you changed my understanding of character for not just Bean but Penny too (but more on her later)! Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Thank you to An Na, who read an early version of this book and pointed me in the right direction.

Thank you to Sarah Ellis—who reminded me that the hard stuff is the least sentimental and who taught me about the power of subtlety and subtext. I am trying to give up ellipses . . . I swear.

To the VCFA community, especially the faculty—you are magic.

Of course—to the CCWs: Rebecca DeMetrick, Linda Melino, Mariellen Langworthy, Claire Nicogossian, Maggie Hayes, Tracy Hart, Laura Backman, Hannah Moderow, Kristin Sandoval, and Matt Hudson.

And, for my sister, Jennie—for all the tamago, “head things,” and trips to the Cape we can stand.

Thank you to Mom and Dad, who brought me to the Cape for our wonderful vacations. You showed Jennie and me the best
place on Earth and always encouraged us to reach for the stars, no matter how high.

I discovered Jim Morrison and The Doors on the Fourth of July, the year of my thirtieth birthday. I heard
Moonlight Drive
on the beach and within weeks had sped through the entire catalogue of albums and read four biographies. The poetry, the music, and the sheer passion that The Doors embodied weaved itself into the fabric of my life. I got to see Ray Manzarek and Robbie Krieger play live in 2011, just two years before Ray passed away. It has been my honor, even in some small way, to continue the legacy of The Doors through Bean’s story.

For me, this quote is the heartbeat of
Between Us and the Moon
:

“I tell you this. No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.”—Jim Morrison

Thank you: Jim, Ray, Robbie, and John—for all of it.

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REBECCA MAIZEL
hails from Rhode Island, where she teaches literature at her alma mater the Wheeler School. She tries not to force her students to read her books, though. Rebecca is the author of several published novels for young adults, and recently received an MFA in Writing for Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Visit her online at
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Maizel, Rebecca.

  
Between us and the moon / Rebecca Maizel. — First edition.

       
pages cm

  
Summary: Just before spending her sixteenth summer on Cape Cod, Sarah’s boyfriend breaks up with her and, as a scientist whose focus is on winning a scholarship through her study of a comet, she designs an experiment to become more like her older sister to see if she, too, can be popular.

  
ISBN 978-0-06-232761-1 (hardcover)

  
EPub Edition © June 2015 ISBN 9780062327635

  
[1. Popularity—Fiction. 2. Dating (Social customs)—Fiction. 3. Experiments—Fiction. 4. Sisters—Fiction. 5. Astronomy—Fiction. 6. Family life—Massachusetts—Fiction. 7. Cape Cod (Mass.)—Fiction.] I. Title.

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