Imagine you're on a seesaw (or a teeter-totter) in a playground in a small town in the year 1936. When your end goes up, it takes you back in time to 1917; when you come down, it's 1936 again. You go up and down a few times, and the people you see wandering around in 1917 start to look like younger versions of the people in 1936—they're even start to sound alike. You look at your friend on the other side of the seesaw and suddenly scream, "Stop! Let me off! I'm dizzy and I want to go home!"

This is how your students might feel after reading the first few chapters of Moon Over Manifest. While the novel does teeter-totter between two time periods and two story lines, we're pretty sure you can prevent novel-related motion sickness by making a two-column chart for your students to use during reading. Label one side 1936 and the other 1917 so they can keep track of the setting, characters, and events as they go along.