Shooting the Moon Resources

Websites

Visit Frances O'Roark Dowell

The author's website is jam-packed with information on her books, workshops, podcasts, and school visits.

Articles and Interviews

Army Brat

In this interview, the author talks about how her husband encouraged her to write about her own experiences as an army brat.

Anti-War Propaganda

What does the author say to people who call her book that? Find out in this interview.

Survival Skills

The author credits her army brat days as giving her the survival skills she needed to become a writer.

Video

Making Up Stories

Looking for a little writing guidance? Listen to the author explain her writing process in this video interview.

Now Enlisting

Watch one library's trailer for the book, which starts with TJ enlisting. (Libraries rule.)

Images

Lights, Camera, Action

We like to think this is what Jamie's moon pictures would look like.

POW Camp

This picture from the Vietnam War shows what it was like to live in a POW camp like TJ did.

Combat Ready

Jamie might think she's combat ready, but this is what war actually looks like.

Calling All Medics

TJ was expected to do grueling work as a medic, and this is what it would actually look like.