Moon Over Manifest

I read all the Newberry books a few years ago, but they just keep awarding the Newberry Award to new books. Moon Over Manifest is one of these.

Everything in this story is clever and shiny. Vanderpool creates a lovely small town, with several stories running in two different pasts, 1917 and 1936, with intriguing characters including a fortuneteller and a moonshiner and a newspaperwoman. Our main character is trying to fit together all the pieces of the plot to discover who her dad really is and why he is always wandering. There are, intermittently, newspaper articles and letters, too. It's a nicely done book.