Walk Two Moons - Softcover

Creech, Sharon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330330004 ISBN 13: 9780330330008

Publisher: Macmillan Pub Ltd, 1995

Synopsis

After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route, and along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left

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Review:

Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle's mother has disappeared. While tracing her steps on a car trip from Ohio to Idaho with her grandparents, Salamanca tells a story to pass the time about a friend named Phoebe Winterbottom whose mother vanished and who received secret messages after her disappearance. One of them read, "Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins." Despite her father's warning that she is "fishing in the air," Salamanca hopes to bring her home. By drawing strength from her Native American ancestry, she is able to face the truth about her mother. Walk Two Moons won the 1995 Newbery Medal.

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"Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins."

As Salamanca Hiddle travels cross-country with her eccentric grandparents, she tells them the story of Phoebe Winterbottom, who met a "potential lunatic" and whose mother disappeared. Beneath Phoebe's story is Salamanca's own: Her mother left for Idaho, and although she promised to return, she has not. Sal hopes to bring her mother home, despite her father's warning that she is "fishing in the air."

This novel is in turns funny, mysterious and touching, as Salamanca comes to a new understanding of aspects of her life.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0330330004
• ISBN 13: 9780330330008
• Binding: Paperback