‘Walk Two Moon’s is a novel of beautiful equilibrium at once terribly sad, and terribly funny. Sal also talks about Ben Finney, who imagines a soul similar to her own and keeps trying to plant a kiss on Sal’s lips. She tells them about her new life in Euclid, where she has befriended the prudish Phoebe Winterbottom, whose family is undergoing a change somewhat similar to the one Sal’s little family went through not so long ago. but along the way Gram and Gramps want to be entertained. Something in the trees is compelling Sal to rush across the American heartland, to get to Idaho and her mother. But when the book begins Sal is at the beginning of a road-trip journey to Idaho with her Gram and Gramps. Now they live in Euclid, Ohio next-door to Margaret Cadaver and her blind mother. We meet Salamanca "Sal" Tree Hiddle shortly after her father has uprooted her from Bybanks, Kentucky and the last memories of her mother. This book wrecked me, in the best possible way. Lumbering towards Lonsdale Street I started to cry, and by the time I'd arrived at my North Melbourne destination I was attracting curious stares from my fellow commuters. I read the last chapter of Sharon Creech’s ‘Walk Two Moons’ aboard the Number-57 tram. It has since become an American children’s classic, and for good reason. ‘Walk Two Moons’ by Sharon Creech was first published in 1994, and won the Newbery Medal in 1995. because Phoebe’s story is entangled in Sal’s own, and what happened when her mother left for the badlands. While on a road-trip trek from Ohio to Idaho, with the trees whispering for her to ‘hurry, rush, hurry’ Sal is recounting the story of her friend, Phoebe Winterbottom and the lunatic who changed her life.īut in the telling of Phoebe’s tale, Sal is learning the truth of the old proverb: " Don't judge a man until you've walked two moons in his moccasins". Salamanca "Sal" Tree Hiddle is telling a story to her Gram and Gramps.
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