Reaching Gavin

Wow, I think for the first time in a while I'm done with a book that has just left me in awe. I loved this one. I almost immediately was connected with Sophie, through the entire book I could feel her emotions. Fear, love, disgust, happiness, longing this book has it all. And it's not just Sophie that I connected with. I loved Cole and was almost as attached to him as I was Sophie. The other main characters (the bad guys)... Read Full Review

I have enjoyed this author for a long time. This is not one of her better books but still enjoyable. I would rate it a 8 of 10

The reader will be fooled by Dorothy Garlock's "The Moon Looked Down," since although it is written in what appears to be seemingly a sophomoric-hand, the story is still an important one to re-tell. The book begins with Sophie Heller being awakened by three men burning down her family's barn. She later finds out that the men are townsmen intent on driving her and her family out of town because they are of German heritage... Read Full Review

During the early days of American's involvement in World War II, it was common knowledge of how Japanese Americans were rounded up and put in interment camps. But what about Americans who had immigrated to this country from Germany? Dorothy Garlock's new book, The Moon Looks Down, takes a look at how one German family in a small Illinois town had to put with bigotry, oppression and intimidation as the country was turned upside... Read Full Review

The Heller family fled Germany for America. They settled in Victory, Illinois where they were welcomed by their new American neighbors. A decade later, the neighbors some of whom befriended the family a decade ago when they moved here and remained friends throughout suddenly think they are German sympathizers. Angry over the growing threat to her family, twenty years old Sophie Heller wants it to end, but cannot figure... Read Full Review