Walk Two Moons

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Summary: Great Book for Children and Adults
Review: This is a wonderful story oh how a thirteen-year-old girl tries to come to terms with her mother's disappearance. Salamanca travels across country in search of her mother. As she travels with her grandparents she passes the time by telling them stories about her new friend, Phoebe Winterbottom. Phoebe is also trying to understand the loss of her mother. As Salamanca tries to help her new friend deal with the her fear and discouragement she soon realizes that she and Phoebe are very much alike. She understands that there are many who suffer from heartache and disappointment. She also comes to the realization that she can be happy again whth the help and love of her family and friends. This is a wonderful book for all to read, but would certainly give hope and encouragement to children who may have lost a parent.

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Summary: Great Book for Children and Adults
Review: This is a wonderful story of how a thirteen-year-old girl tries to come to terms with her mother's disappearance. Salamanca travels across country in search of her mother. As she travels with her grandparents she passes the time by sharing stories about her new friend, Phoebe Winterbottom. Phoebe has also experienced the loss of her mother. As Salamanca tries to help her new fiend deal with her fear and discouragement she realizes that she and Phoebe are very much alike. She understands that there are many who suffer from heartache and discouragement. she also comes to the realization that she can be happy again with the help of her family and friends. This is a wonderful book for all to read. But could certainly give hope and encouragement to children who may have lost a parent or someone dear to them.

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Summary: An interesting journey
Review: Walk Two Moons definately deserves its Newbery. It's about a girl named Sal whose mother left her and her father. So, Sal's grandparents, on her fathers side, take her to Lewiston, Idaho where her mother was headed. On the way there, her grandparents asked her to tell them a story. She decided to tell the story of her over imaginitive friend whose mother was supposedly "kidnapped." The ending of the story Sal told is unlike any other. The mother actually comes back. I think Sal tells this story to her grandparents because it is parallel to her life.

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Summary: A great book for children and adults
Review: This is a wonderful book about a young girl and how she suffers over a missing mother, two crazy grandparents and a very sad father. Salamanca travels with her grandparents from Euclid Ohio to Lewiston Idaho to visit her mother. She entertains them on the way with stories about her new friend Phoebe and her crazy mixed up family. The relationship Salamanca has with her grandparents is very touching. They really do some rather odd things as they travel,but their love for eachother is very obvious. This is a story of loving grandparents who are trying in their own way to help a grandaughter come to terms with a life without a mother. As Sal makes new friends and meets new people she realizes there are others who suffer with problems as awful as hers.This story will make you laugh and make you cry. It will help you to understand that all of us have problems in our lifes, what really matters is how we deal with them.

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Summary: A Story that will Warm Your Heart.
Review: This interesting and captivating book is a story about a girl of thirteen years, named Sal. Who goes on a search to find her mother, who mysterously disappered into Idaho, when Sal was four years old. Along the way Sal tells the story of her friend Peobe Winterbottom, and as she does she begins to realize how much Peobe's story is like her very own. This sad mistryous tale about a girl who is trying to find out what has happened even if she may not want to know, is enjoyable and hard to put down.

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Summary: Suprises In Store For You!!!
Review: I'm a 11 and a half year old boy and I personaly loved and recomend the book Walk Two Moons to all pre- teens. The story stars a girl named Sal and she is on her way to visting her mother in Idaho for her birthday. The book is full of twists and turns and a shocking suprise ending.

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Summary: A Suspenseful and Adventurous Book
Review: Although it has some problems, I think Walk Two Moons is a good book. I like the suspenseful plot and some of the characters, like Phoebe who has a wild imagination, and the grandparents. I found the ending unrealistic. All of the moms in the book were depressed , unrealistic stay at home housewives, which seemed ridiculous. I found the book entertaining but I was disturbed by the unrealistic things in it.

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Summary: You'll really like this one!
Review: When my reading teacher said 'We'll be starting a new book next week' I groaned and moaned like every other kid did! I thought it would be boring and horrible and just down right stupid!!
I didn't know how wrong I was.....
When we opened the book, the first sentance got me hooked! We couldnt take 'em home tho..so, I didn't get to read as mucha s I liked, but I read so far ahead I almost couldnt answer each question that was asked!!
When you come to the end about Pheobe..(as one kid in my class said, F-O-BE) and her mom, U'll amost die! Ben and Salamca and everything else is so great you dont want to put te book down!!

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Summary: A GREAT children's book that sagacious adults too will enjoy
Review: I do not throw the word "great" around blithely - this book is indeed great, a testament to the legitimacy of the Newbery Award Committee, to the frequent superiority of the best children's books to adult literature in grabbing the imagination and imbuing the mind with truth, and to the artistic abilities of Ms. Creech. As a former teacher in a school predominated by minorities, I can testify that this book, with its natural sense of spirituality, whimsical characters (Phoebe, Gram and Gramps, and other supporting characters strike me as a more-naturalistic rogue's gallery to rival the creatures in Alice and Wonderland), fascinating narrative thread, gradual unvieling of the truth, and sensitive portrayal of familial and friendly relationships should appeal to just about all young people and all adults who haven't had reality leeched out of them by a violent, licentious, consumerist culture. Creech has characterized Sal so sensitively and beautifully that the reader knows her as well as a living friend. She is intelligent, artistic, and deeply "spiritual" in her perceptions of what is most important in life. It is indeed this sense of perspective in the first person narrative that conveys Sal as such an admirable human being - someone from whom her "peers" who read her story can learn about aspects of life they may never have considered. She comes across as someone destined to great things in the lives of a few people at least, if not in the world, but still that person whom most of the kids in the middle school class like and respect. Some of the editorial reviewers rather pathetically and erroneously critiqued the ending of the book, but 1) it's a children's book, and the "tidiness" and joyfulness of some aspects of the ending (which has more to do with resigned acceptance) reflect that, 2) the reader goes through the final stream of experiences much as Sal would have. After what she has lost - and it is considerable - Sal values what is left all the more. Why am I harping on about "Truth"? Because gratitude, and the ability to perceive reason for joy even in the face of deep hurt and sorrow, are two of the key realities of life, and this book conveys that with believeable and entertaining characters. The point is, this book resonates with a far truer perception of human nature than literally 99% of the adult fiction produced in the past 30 years or so. I have recommended it to many of my adult friends to their edification and gratitude, and naturally to all of my students. One of my ten favorite books of all time in any genre. It's True and it's joyful. What more do you want?

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Summary: Walk Two Moons:Creech'sbest!!!!
Review: Walk Two Moons is one of my all-time favorite books! While reading it I felt as if I was Sal Hiddle traveling across the country in search of my mom. I understood how she felt about nature and her mother. I got so involved in the book that I cried when the sad things happened and the good things put me in a good mood! I could stop reading walk two moons cause it was so good!