Shooting the Moon by Frances O'Roark Dowell Accelerated Reader: Level: 5.3. Pts. 4. Number of Multiple Choice Questions on Quiz: 10. Take the Quiz! Book Description: Twelve-year-old Jamie Dexter and her brother, TJ, have grown up with the Army: their dad is a colonel. So Jamie is puzzled when neither the Colonel nor their mother is thrilled to learn that TJ has enlisted. After all, he’s going to war in Vietnam, where Jamie would like to go if she weren’t so young. But then TJ, a photographer, begins to send her rolls of film to develop that gradually reveal the horrors of what he’s seen. This is a sparse, beautifully written story about learning to truly see people, situations, and emotions as they are, not as we want to see them. Through lovingly drawn, complex characters and explicit details about photography, Dowell introduces a war, and the issues surrounding it, that will seem familiar to contemporary readers in spite of the historical setting, and she invites young people to reflect on the many shades of gray that Jamie confronts.