Walk Two Moons: A Newbery Award Winner

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.

Author: Sharon Creech
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 05/19/1994
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780060233341

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.9
Point Value: 9
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 10299 / Walk Two Moons

Award: Newbery Medal - Winner
Award: Black-Eyed Susan Award - Nominee
Award: Heartland Award - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 11/15/1994 pg. 590
Kirkus Review - Children 06/15/1994 pg. 842
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/1994 pg. 87 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw
ALA Notable Children's Books 04/01/1995 pg. 1411
SLJ's Best Books 12/01/1994 pg. 23
School Library Journal 10/01/1994

About the Author
Creech, Sharon: -

Sharon Creech has written twenty-one books for young people and is published in over twenty languages. Her books have received awards in both the U.S. and abroad, including the Newbery Medal for Walk Two Moons, the Newbery Honor for The Wanderer, and Great Britain's Carnegie Medal for Ruby Holler.

Before beginning her writing career, Sharon Creech taught English for fifteen years in England and Switzerland. She and her husband now live in Maine, "lured there by our grandchildren," Creech says.

www.sharoncreech.com