When Phoebe's mother does return, it is with a new haircut and a long-lost son, the man previously suspected of maniacal tendencies. Phoebe is convinced that a maniac has kidnapped her, and she involves Sal in her plans to find both the maniac and her missing mother. So it is a surprise when her mother disappears, leaving several weeks' worth of frozen entrées in the freezer. Phoebe comes from a solidly middle-class and decidedly proper family. The majority of her story is taken up by Sal's friend, Phoebe Winterbottom. To help pass time on the trip Sal tells her grandparents about her new life in Ohio. Sal is so convinced, and so convincing a narrator, that even an adult reader may be forgiven for making it pretty far through the book before realizing that Sal's mother is actually dead. She is convinced that if she makes it to Idaho by her mother's birthday, her mother might return. Sal now retraces her mother's roots in a car trip with her eccentric paternal grandparents.
Prior to the move Sal's mother went on a bus trip to Idaho and never returned. Sharon Creech's Newbery Medal-winning book is the rare novel that students will choose on their own, but is also appropriate for classroom discussion.Ī year before the start of the story, 13-year-old Salamanca (Sal) Tree Hiddle and her father moved from their Kentucky farm to a small Ohio town. It is about kisses, families, cultural identity, redemption, education, travel, death, and love. Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech is a story within a story, a story about stories, a travelogue, and a fable all rolled into one. ALA Upcoming Annual Conferences & LibLearnXīook Links April/May 2002 (v.11, no.5) by Marta S.
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