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Walk Two Moons Summer Reading Edition Sharon Creech Books Reviews

I purchased a class set of Walk Two Moons after reading it with my grandson in 6th grade. It is a fun book that keeps the pre and early teen reader interested. It is a fun adventure of a young girl who travels with her grandparents. Untilimately, the story leaves room for rich discussion about more grown up things. I am using it for a High School 9th and 10yth grade Special Ed Reading class. The interest is high, but the reading level is more appropriate for the reader who struggles.
Salamanca "Sal" Tree Hiddle is telling a story to her Gram and Gramps. 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.

But 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" . . . because Phoebe's story is entangled in Sal's own, and what happened when her mother left for the badlands.

`Walk Two Moons' by Sharon Creech was first published in 1994, and won the Newbery Medal in 1995. It has since become an American children's classic, and for good reason.

I read the last chapter of Sharon Creech's `Walk Two Moons' aboard the Number-57 tram. 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. This book wrecked me, in the best possible way.

We meet Salamanca "Sal" Tree Hiddle shortly after her father has uprooted her from Bybanks, Kentucky and the last memories of her mother. Now they live in Euclid, Ohio next-door to Margaret Cadaver and her blind mother. But when the book begins Sal is at the beginning of a road-trip journey to Idaho with her Gram and Gramps. Something in the trees is compelling Sal to rush across the American heartland, to get to Idaho and her mother . . . but along the way Gram and Gramps want to be entertained. So Sal starts telling them a story. 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. 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.

`Walk Two Moon's is a novel of beautiful equilibrium; at once terribly sad, and terribly funny. In recounting the story of Phoebe's lunatic, who brings her family crashing down, Sal paints a wonderful picture of her best friend; a young girl whose wild imagination is rivalled only by her snobbish temperance. Sal recounts Phoebe's story like a puzzle she's piecing together for her Gram and Gramps - explaining the cryptic messages that were first left on the Winterbottom porch, and then the various investigations Phoebe and Sal conducted searching for the lunatic.

But Phoebe's story has a deeper meaning for Sal, who draws parallels between the Winterbottom's struggles and the events that led to her mother leaving Sal and her father behind to go on the very same Idaho road-trip Sal is currently undertaking with her grandparents.

`Walk Two Moons' is glorious. For a long time it feels almost like Sal's story is a collection of vignettes as she recounts the many memories she has of her mother, the enigmatic Chanhassen Hiddle. So many things trigger memories for Sal, something as harmless as a blackberry pie holds a landmine of remembrance.

But in teasing out the memories, and questioning the events that led up to her mother leaving home, Sal's story begins to take shape. I wouldn't say that `Walk Two Moons' is ever a strictly linear story - though Sal's recounting Phoebe's lunatic tale is a fairly straightforward narrative, Sal explaining her own story takes many twists and turns. She's a young woman who has gone through a lot of life changes in a very short amount of time - not least of which includes moving away from the only home she has ever known, a new shivery awareness of Ben Finney and the colossal hole her mother's leaving gouged in her heart. It often happens that to understand one component of her changing world, Sal has to go back and look at old memories with a fresh perspective. This is a rather lovely facet of childhood-into-adulthood that Creech explains at Sal's slow and steady pace.

Half-way through the book, you will begin to feel a niggling of sadness. Something is on the horizon, and the same way that Sal hears trees telling her to `rush, hurry' or `slow, slow' - so too will the sadness of this book start whispering. It's a creeping kind of sadness - beautifully teased by Creech increment by increment. But there's an overarching theme in the book, concerning the Greek myth of Pandora's Box, a subject Sal's class are studying in English. By the end, tears in my eyes, I decided that `Walk Two Moons' was a literary Pandora's Box in itself - that although there was incredible sadness and pain within, the slivers of hope are the lasting effect of Creech's wonderful novel. The lessons Sal learns, her singing tree, blackberry kisses, the shivery feeling Ben ignites and Phoebe's lunatic are all so beautifully hopeful that the sadness, though sharp, does not prevail - hope does.
My son and I read this book together. It's a slow start but pushing through the initial chapters, the story gains momentum. The author takes care to build each character within the developing plot. It is a good book to discuss character traits, Native Americans, and some of life's difficult topics like death and some others (don't want to spoil it). Excellent read along with your child to have teachable moments. My son is 11 and it seemed to be right on par with his age.
This book was EXCELLENT! I read this with a tween I dearly love, and we didn't want to put it down. I bought the audible version for said tween and I cannot tell you how many times it has been listened to; let's just say that it has been listened to so many times that I thought it a disservice to not post a review. The names that Sharon Creech chose for her characters are as entertaining as the book, itself. It is a wild tale full of heart, mystery, love and intrigue. We both HIGHLY recommend this book.
This was a beautiful story. My sixth grader was required to read it for school. He loved the story, it was definitely was a favorite of his and mine. Although it did not make him cry it made me cry. I recommend this book for anyone.
In the book Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, it has three stories in one book. The story of Sal traveling across the country with her grandparents, the story of Sal’s friend Phoebe and her family and the memories she has of her mother and family.

Due to the complexity and the maturity of the book, this book would be best for students in 5th to 8th grade. This book deals with a lot of hard topics that could be tough for children to fully understand. Sal’s narrative style is kind of hard to understand because she bounces around a lot from story to story and you are not sure whether she is speaking to her grandparents or if she is thinking in her head.

Overall, this book this book can be relatable to students who are trying figure themselves out. This book story also demonstrates that sometimes things do not always turn out as we hope they do.
My 6th graders fell in love with this novel. As an educator, I was thrilled to have a classroom beg me to continue reading past their assigned English period (I teach all subjects, so my students stay in my classroom all day).
It's a novel that does a masterful job of exploring the topics of love, loss, and identity. It's quirky and powerful. Many of my students have already experienced at least one significant loss in their lives and they were able to work through many of their emotions with the help of this book. At the end of the novel, I had a few students in tears and the classroom erupted in applause. I am looking forward to reading this novel again with my new students.
I got such a kick out of this book. The story is really multiple stories, alongside and within one another. Most good books have lots of threads, but in this case the threads parallel each other beyond what a reader would expect. So many odd or outrageous things happen, and yet they fit together. I laughed aloud many times, although I don't think the book was meant to be funny. Usually I was laughing at comments characters made, comments that had the same effect on me as a raw egg falling from the sky and splatting onto a sidewalk - just crazy, surprising choices of words and actions. There's also plenty of sadness in Walk Two Moons, and it's deep sadness that may upset some readers. But the characters are ultimately resilient enough to push forward.
Heartbreaking, beautiful story!