Walk Two Moons

Walk Two Moons

By Sharon Creech

Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers 1994 280 pages

Genre: Family, Death and Dying

Reading Level: Young Adult

Summary: This is about Salmananca who is on a trip with her grandparents to Lewiston, Idaho. Along the way, she comes to terms with my parents’ separation, and her new life in Euclid, Ohio, where she moved with my father after her mother left. She tells her grandparents the story of her friend Phoebe, about the mysterious notes and Phoebe’s mother sudden disappearance and Phoebe’s discovery of her new brother. Just before they reach Lewiston, Idaho, her grandmother has a stroke and Sal has to go the rest of the way by herself. She drives the rest of the way alone and she visits her mother’s grave and comes to terms with her mother’s death. When she goes home, she and her father move back to their farm in Bybanks, Kentucky.

Response: I liked this book very much. I didn’t actually realize that her mother was dead until the very end and then the whole book made sense.