Walk Two Moons
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After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
"Reader's guide inside"--Cover
"A Newbery medal book"--Spine
Originally published in 1994
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Add a SummaryThe novel is narrated by a 13 year old girl who is named Salamanca Tree Hiddle (Sal). Sal's mother has recently left Sal and her father, and Sal's Gram and Gramps are taking her on a cross-country car trip to Lewiston, Idaho to see her mother in time for her birthday, hoping to bring her home with her. Sal loves nature and was very close to her mother before she left. On the trip, Sal entertains her grandparents by telling a story about her friend in Euclid, Ohio, Phoebe Winterbottom, whose mother suddenly disappeared and left their family too, and about Ben Finney with whom Sal begins a tight relationship. Over the course of the book, Sal's story unfolds and their car travels west. As Sal reveals more details about Phoebe's story, parallels are realized between Sal's situation and Phoebe's story. When Sal is finished telling the story, Sal's grandmother, or "Gram", dies of a stroke. Sal's grandfather then gives Sal permission to drive to the site of a bus crash where we learn that the reason Sal's mother never returned was because she is deceased. Sal is then taken by a police officer to her mother's cemetery. Returning home to Bybanks, Kentucky, Sal's grandmother is buried and Pheobe, Ben, Mrs. Cadaver and Mr. Birkway promise to visit her next month.
The novel is narrated by a 13 year old girl who is named Salamanca Tree Hiddle (Sal). Sal's mother has recently left Sal and her father, and Sal's Gram and Gramps are taking her on a cross-country car trip to Lewiston, Idaho to see her mother in time for her birthday, hoping to bring her home with her. Sal loves nature and was very close to her mother before she left. On the trip, Sal entertains her grandparents by telling a story about her friend in Euclid, Ohio, Phoebe Winterbottom, whose mother suddenly disappeared and left their family too, and about Ben Finney with whom Sal begins a tight relationship. Over the course of the book, Sal's story unfolds and their car travels west. As Sal reveals more details about Phoebe's story, parallels are realized between Sal's situation and Phoebe's story. When Sal is finished telling the story, Sal's grandmother, or "Gram", dies of a stroke. Sal's grandfather then gives Sal permission to drive to the site of a bus crash where we learn that the reason Sal's mother never returned was because she is deceased. Sal is then taken by a police officer to her mother's cemetery. Returning home to Bybanks, Kentucky, Sal's grandmother is buried and Pheobe, Ben, Mrs. Cadaver and Mr. Birkway promise to visit her next month.
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Add a Quote“Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.”
“On that night after Phoebe had given her Pandora report, I thought about the Hope in Pandora's box. Maybe when everything seemed sad and miserable, Phoebe and I could both hope that something might start to go right.”
“I was wishing I was invisible. Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely sad, sad down to my bones. I was sad for Phoebe and her parents and Prudence and Mike, sad for the leaves that were dying, and sad for myself, for something I had lost.”
“Being a mother is like trying to hold a wolf by the ears,” Gram said. “If you have three or four –or more – chickabiddies, you’re dancing on a hot griddle all the time. You don’t have time to think about anything else. And if you’ve only got one or two, it’s almost harder. You have room left over – empty spaces that you think you’ve got to fill up.”
“A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.”
“It seems to me that we can’t explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors, and we can’t fix these things, so we look at the frightening things that are closer to us and we magnify them until they burst open. Inside is something that we can manage, something that isn’t as awful as it had a first seemed. It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, most people seem a lot like us: sometimes afraid and sometimes brave, sometimes cruel and sometimes kind.”
“What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones. ”
“You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.”
“Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.”
“Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.”
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Add a CommentSoooo good. I almost cried
I just love this book we read it in our 6th grade writing class
amazing to read and enjoyable for the whole readers!!!
One of my favorite books of all time. I read it in 5th grade, and I just graduated high school and it is still one of the best I've read yet. (And I read a lot!)
Best book for my 7th grade year! This book was my favorite of all time, really want to read it again and again !! Fantastic book!!
i enjoyed this reading back in 7th grade!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
diz is g00d b0k ~1`1!!@1`1`1`111
For Oliver, recommended by Karen
I read this book in one day; I just couldn't put it down! This book got a Newbery Award for a reason!
This book is about a girl named Salamanca Tree Hiddle,AKA Sal.She is traveling with her grandparents from ohio to Idaho.Along the way,she tells a tale about her friend,Phoebe.One day,phoebe's mother left and Phoebe thinks it's a lunitic who has kidnapped her.She thinks she knows who exactly!Lately she has been getting strange letters,like "everyone" has their own agenda.Also we get to take a peek at Sal's "problems"as well..... This book is fantastic; I encourage anyone to read this book! And I dare anyone to solve the mystery before it is revealed.