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Walk
Two Moons
by Sharon Creech
Date of Publication: 1994
ISBN: 0590674099
Number of Pages: 280 |
REQUIRED READING ABILITY:
Average
GENRES: Adventure
THEMES: Family, Friendship, Life versus Death,
Appearance versus Reality, Humour, Coming of Age, Courage
SUMMARY:
Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle, “Sal,” is
travelling via car with her grandparents on a quest to find the truth
about her mother's disappearance. She refuses to believe that her mom
is dead, and feels great impatience to reach Idaho, the place where she
last heard from her mother, so she can find her mom before her next birthday.
She has recently moved from
the country to the city and has had to endure all the changes that this
has brought to her life. She makes a new friend, Phoebe Winterbottom,
who adds a little “fun” to Sal's existence. Phoebe has an
interesting family, receives mysterious, anonymous messages on her front
porch, has a very strange, and possibly scary, neighbour and a mother
who has also disappeared.
Sal narrates the story of Phoebe
to her grandparents as they travel from Ohio to Idaho having their own
adventure. As she tells Phoebe's story, we learn a lot about Sal's story
and the story of Sal’s missing mother as well.
WHO
WOULD LOVE THIS BOOK? A kid who...
- enjoys books about family
drama
- deals with grief and family
issues – extended family, death of family members
- enjoys first person narrative,
dialogue-type books
- is a girl
- is feeling some teenage
angst
- has roots in the First
Nations culture
- has recently moved and or
had upheaval in his or her life
WHAT ELSE?
This is a wonderful narrative tale about two girls in search
for the mothers they've lost, and is a Newbery Medal winner. The main
character has a partial First Nations bloodline, so there are a few Aboriginal
inferences. Mom has indeed died in the book, so a child who has lost a
family member may find this a little hard to read.
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