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"Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech is a very touching and very good book. The whole thing is told on the way to Iowa in a car with her grandparents as a story. It is about a girl named Salamanca Tree Hiddle whose mother leaves her. Sal and her father move to another town where Sal meets a girl named Phoebe. According to Phoebe Margaret Cadaver cut up her husband and buried him in her backyard. When Phoebe's mother mysterically disappears Phoebe is convinced that a potential lunatic kidnapped her and is keeping her prisoner. Sal has gone through this before and therefore tries to help Phoebe. It is an excellent book that won a newberry medal. I highly suggest it. Also, it makes a wonderful read aloud. "
Maya, Resident Scholar
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" Salamanca Tree Hiddle, known as Sal, is traveling from Ohio to Idaho with her grandparents, looking for her mother. While they are going, Sal tells her grandparents a story of Phoebe WInterbottom, her friend back in Ohio, whose mother also disappeared, and received peculiar messages from a lunatic.
Phoebe Winterbottom was living happily until she met a weird man on the streets that asked for her name. Phoebe started getting messages from a mysterious person like "Don't judge a man until you've walked two moons in his moccasins." She thought they were from the man she met on the street. After that, her mother disappeared. Phoebe and Sal track her down until they go to the Chanting Falls University. They find Mrs. Winterbottom, kissing the lunatic. Mrs. Winterbottom comes home and she tells the family that the lunatic is actually her long-lost son, Mike. Phoebe stops worrying, even though she is was a little angry, and the story ends happily.
Sal arrives at Coeur D'Alene, Idaho and sees her mother's tombstone and kisses it. She goes back home, happily, to Ohio and lives happily ever after."
Jane Song, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- thoughtful
Time/era of story
- 1980's-1999
Kids growing up/acting up?
Yes
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Age 11-14
Parents/lack of parents problem?
- Momma gone
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- a teen
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
- American Indian
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- none
- Female
Age:
- 40's-50's
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- an above average amount
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 6 ()
United States
Yes
The US:
- West
- Midwest
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
- explicit references to deaths
Unusual Style:
- a lot of flashback and forwards
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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