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In her own singularly beautiful style, Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech intricately weaves together two tales, one funny, one bittersweet, to create a heartwarming, compelling, and utterly moving story of love, loss, and the complexity of human emotion. Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle, proud of her country roots and the "Indian-ness in her blood," travels from Ohio to Idaho with her eccentric grandparents. Along the way, she tells them of the story of Phoebe Winterbottom, who received mysterious messages, who met a "potential lunatic," and whose mother disappeared.As Sal entertains her grandparents with Phoebe's outrageous story, her own story begins to unfold—the story of a thirteen-year-old girl whose only wish is to be reunited with her missing mother. Read more
Publisher : HarperCollins
Publication date : July 18, 1996
Edition : 1st
Language : English
Print length : 288 pages
ISBN-10 : 0064405176
ISBN-13 : 71
Item Weight : 6.4 ounces
Reading age : 10 - 13 years, from customers
Dimensions : 5.12 x 0.61 x 7.62 inches
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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.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2012 by Alpha Reader
Sharon's books were my favorite part of library time in middle school. I revisted these stories for a bit of nostalgia and came away with a new, greater appreciation for her gift of storytelling. Simply the best.
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2024 by Natalie
This was an exceptional book. I wasn't sure at first and had a bit of a hard time getting in to it. But it was well worth it!
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2024 by Misty Biesinger
I read this with a class of seventh graders and most of us enjoyed the story of Salamanca Tree Hiddle. This is a quick read as the chapters are short and the language flows easily. Yet, under this deceptively simple language lies some complex issues and themes which are revealed as the story progresses. Sal yearns for her mother, a character that is revealed as having left at the beginning of the story. So Sal and her paternal grandparents go on a journey to find her mother, a journey that takes them across the country, and one in which they meet some interesting characters. I feel this book will particularly appeal to young adults as Salamanca is a character many teens will empathize with. As crucial plot elements are revealed, readers learn more about Sal and her family, her friend, and those inhabiting her environment. Sal makes this journey of self-discovery, of growing up and realizing that life is not about living within the confines of one's own comfort zone but of accepting unpalatable truths and making peace with these truths. A truly remarkable read and highly recommended for young adults.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2011 by Z Hayes
Salamanca Tree Hiddle "Sal" is a 13 year old girl who's whole world was collapsing. After her mother left on a trip to Idaho and never returned, her and her father moved from the rural Kentucky farm that she grew up on into a tiny suburban house in Ohio: just down the road from her father's new "friend" the widowed Mrs. Cadaver. Just over a year after the move Gram and Gramps are taking Sal on a cross country trip to see her mother in Idaho. Free spirited and aloof her Grandparents are not in as big of a hurry as her to reach their destination; instead insisting on stopping, sight seeing and at times going off the beaten path. While driving they suggest that Sal tell them a story to help pass the time. So she reminisces about a girl she befriended after the move named Phoebe and her very "respectable" family. Telling the story of Phoebe's "lunatic", the mysterious notes left on her porch, and her belief that the next door neighbor Mrs. Cadaver had chopped up her husband and buried him in the backyard (possibly with the help of their English teacher). After Phoebe's mother suddenly leaves with nothing but a vague note Sal and Phoebe team up to find out what happened; could she have been kidnapped or murdered? Was is Mrs. Cadaver (you know that means dead body right)? As they travel cross country on the the same path Sal's mother had taken and Phoebes story unfolds it is apparent how even though they are very different Phoebe's story parallels Sal's, and Gloria's (but that's a story for another time). This books dives deep into empathy, family, love and loss. It also has very nice nature, American Indian, and travel tones. It's left me with so many emotions that upon completing it I'm both happy and sad at the same time. I definitely recommend this to anyone middle school +
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Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2022 by Christina