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Dec 16, 2009

Heather rated it:

Thirteen year old Salamanca Tree Hiddle (Sal for short) embarks on a car trip with her eccentric grandparents from Ohio to Idaho to be reunited with her missing mother. Sal is determined that her mother will come home before the tulips bloom. Along the way Sal recounts her friendship with another girl by the name of Phoebe whose mother also left.
Sal tells a story of the strange and outrageous Phoebe Winterbottom who constantly warns of the dangers of cholesterol and thinks everyone she More...

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Dec 10, 2010

Reese rated it:

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Sep 04, 2008

Keleigh rated it:

This book was written specifically for my 13-year-old self, which apparently is still alive and well inside of me. It has all the elements I grew up loving: wacky names like Salamanca Tree Hiddle and Phoebe Winterbottom, American Indian themes, lush descriptions of country living, spiritual undertones, a little mystery, a little romance, and a missing mother.

The missing mother thing was the suckerpunch, of course. It's why I found myself lying in the bathtub in the middle of a Monday More...

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Mar 31, 2008

Hillary rated it:

This was a delightful read with even more delightful characters. The story line was engaging, the characters were perfectly flawed, and the ending offered closure without confusion or making up your mind for you. It was a quick read, completely worthy of the Newberry Medal and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a good summer read.

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Jun 21, 2008

Leslie rated it:

Sharon Creech is one of my favorite authors of young adult literature.
Her characters are realistic and one feels their pain.
I especially enjoy reading a book where the main character is female.
Sometimes family secrets have a way of coming out and surprising a person...

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Jan 10, 2009

Romi rated it:

IT WAS AWESOME!!! So sad in the end, though. This is one of my favorites. I am sooooo glad I read it!!!!!

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Oct 27, 2011

Speakercoret rated it:

Penyesalan memang selalu datang belakangan..

Yang diingat Sal adalah, ia marah2 dan berteriak kepada ibunya.. Dan teriakannya itu mungkin menjadi hal terakhir yang diingat ibunya di hari kepergiannya.. Dan Sal menyesal.. sangat sangat menyesal ;(

"Mungkin, berteriak kepada ibumu berarti dan penting. Aku dulu tak yakin tentang itu, tapi setelah ibumu tiba-tiba pergi, saat-saat kamu teriak kepada ibumu menjadi saat-saat yang penuh penyesalan sepanjang hidupmu."
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May 02, 2008

Christine rated it:

Salamanca Tree Hiddle (Sal for short)a thirteen year old girl, embarks on a car trip with her grandparents from Ohio to Idaho to be reunited with her missing mother. Sal is determined that her mother will come home. Along the way Sal told a story about a girl named Phoebe whose mother also left.
Sal tells a story of the outrageous Phoebe Winterbottom who constantly warns of the dangers of cholesterol and thinks everyone she meets is a “lunatic”. This is funny becasue there has to be someo More...

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Sep 29, 2007

Bethany rated it:

Thirteen year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle is on a journey of a lifetime. She is traveling by car with her grandparents from Ohio to Idaho to find her mother. Sal - as she is known++ by most everyone besides her grandparents and mother - has recently moved to Ohio from Kentucky with her father. Sal’s mother left on a spiritual quest the year before and promised to be back “before the tulips bloom”. But she never returned.

On their road trip to Idaho to find Sal’s mother, Grandma Hi More...

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Dec 14, 2008

Hannah rated it:

I thought this was a really good book! I think people who are looking for a book to pass the time....Well this is the book for them! Its about a girl who moves to a big city froma small town and she meets a girl named Phoebe who is very opinionated!

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Mar 01, 2008

Danielle rated it:

This book is the perfect example of how a book can be written for a younger audience, but still hold entertainment and meaning for adult readers. I really, thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was suspenseful without being (too) contrived or corny. The characters were interesting and unique, yet believable, and the story was truly touching. I thought the author did an excellent job portraying the mindset of middle school-age children, especially in that they didn't all think and act the same, or hav More...

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Jun 15, 2008

Dollie rated it:

This is the last book my son allowed me to read aloud to him. Since the heroine is female and he was about 9 or 10 or so, he didn't always want to discuss what was going on or admit he "connected" with the main character but he listened intently. I loved how softly and humorously this book dealt with difficult issues. Although he would never pick up this book now that he is so grown and macho, I am glad he heard this story and that it lives somewhere in his soul. Perhaps the lessons More...

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Jun 24, 2007

Rachel rated it:

It is incredibly satisfying, and incredibly well-written. You aren't exactly sure what is happening throughout the book, but it is interesting, and it pulls you in. In the end, it's bittersweet. I cried. Walk Two Moons is the kind of book that makes you think, the kind of book that makes you cry, and the kind of book that you really want to read over again. I guess I can relate to the car trip she is having, and the beauty of her descriptions.
Salamanca is truly growing during the b More...

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Jun 16, 2008

Patty rated it:

I really enjoy this book a lot and loved how it ended. We had to read this book for our literature circle and it was hard to not read beyond the chapters we assigned. It is great book and goes back and forth between the past and present. The adventure that she went through was very understandable for a young girl who had to face the reality of losing her mom. It's wonderful book and I would use this book for literature circle with middle school kids and have them create poetry for one character More...

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Aug 11, 2011

Lisa added it

This is an example of a kids' book that I loved reading as an adult. I think kids might be a little confused at all the interweaving story lines, but I think this would be an excellent book to help students plot out the time shifts and help them learn to read a book that tells more than one story at a time.

There's a little too much coincidence, but I can excuse that in a children's book. There are examples of foreshadowing. There are tie-ins to myths and stories (Pandora's box). There is g More...

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Nov 24, 2008

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Feb 06, 2012

Julie rated it:

Salamanca Tree Hiddle (otherwise known as Sal) recalls her cross-country road trip to Idaho with her grandparents to see her mother. During the trip, Sal recounts the story of her friend, Phoebe Winterbottom. Sal moved to Euclid, Ohio, after her mother left the family to travel to Idaho, and met Phoebe. The girls quickly became friends despite Phoebe’s constant worries about messages that are left at her door and a “lunatic” lurking around their house. Phoebe’s suspicions intensified after her m More...

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Jan 10, 2012

01ambriellec rated it:

Is it just me or did anyone else think that the books we were assigned to read this term were really interesting? I've loved both this book and To Kill A Mockingbird and both have become fast favorites. Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech is probably directed toward a young adult audience. The main problem in the book is that Sal's mother is gone and now Phebe's mom has disappeared, too. The setting is appropriate, it can get confusing at times though because the book is a story being told on a road More...

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Jan 02, 2012

03evang rated it:

The book Walk Two Moons doesn’t talk about somebody walking on two different moons it is actually a part of the metaphor; “You cannot judge a person until you’ve walked two moons in their moccasins.” It is about a girl whose named Salamanca learning that you need to find your own happiness, and that it wasn’t her fault that her mom left the family. I think that this book is basically split into three parts, and they kind of get intertwined into one big story.
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Jan 02, 2012

05kearae rated it:

“Don’t judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.” This is a quote that describes Salamanca’s story. Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech is a great story that illustrates a great moral. Salamanca the main character, who is also known as Sal, tells a story inside of a story which set the book apart from others. Sal doesn’t understand what happened throughout most of the book, then she “walks through other people’s moccasins” and understands most of the things that happened. The le More...

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Dec 08, 2011

03MaddisonG rated it:

Sharon Creech is a creative author. She can write very unique books. One of those books is call Walk Two Moons. Walk Two Moons is about two girls that have very large imaginations. Phoebe is the one that has the most imaginative mind of the two girls.
Sal is the new girl in the neighborhood. Sal and her dad move into a new house, because her dad couldn’t stay in the house that his wife left them in. Sal and Phoebe become really good friends. Then one day Phoebe’s mom disappeared without More...

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Oct 29, 2011

Colleen rated it:

On a rainy Sunday morning, what could be better than curling back up in bed with a good book? Well, that is exactly what I did this weekend when I picked up "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech. The storyline of this book follows a road-trip that the main character, Sal, is taking with her grandparents across the mid-west to visit her mother in Idaho. Along the way, Sal entertains her grandparents by telling them the story of her fried, Phoebe, who's mother also left home (though for quit More...

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Aug 13, 2011

Lisa rated it:

I always avoided reading Walk Two Moons because I thought the photo collage of mountains on the cover looked depressing--but when I finally read it this week, I loved it! It's a story within a story: thirteen year-old Salamanca Hiddle is taking a cross-country road trip with her grandparents to see her mother, who left Salamanca's family the year before. On the way, she tells her grandparents about her friend Phoebe's family. In doing so, Salamanca gains insight into her own complicated feeli More...

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Aug 05, 2011

Lolene rated it:

I'm going to paste a review from Amazon.com here, because E.R Bird could have been writing for me:

"Walk Two Moons" is a book as infinitely wise as it is funny...the rare book that can serve up a rousing good story while teaching you a little about the very nature of life, death, loving and grieving. This is a book ostensibly written for children but so incredibly mature that after finishing it you just sit staring at the picture of author Sharon Creech on the book flap thinki More...

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Mar 23, 2011

1luvbooks rated it:

I LOVED this book. I read it when I was nine or ten, at my library, and I loved it then, too.
This book is all about Salamanca Hiddle coming to grips with her mother`s leaving. I loved the whole sub plot with Phoebe, and found her very entertaining. The book itself is not so far fetched- I enjoyed how realistic all the characters are, and the love story was sweet. All the little stories inside (Pandora`s Box, Prometheus, Legends) were a beautiful touch. And the mystery was amazing. I never More...

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Mar 15, 2011

Dan rated it:

I enjoyed this book very much even though it was a little predictable because of all the foreshadowing. But I liked the multitude of stories that were woven into one another. Walk Two oons ] is narrated by an adolescent girl named Salamanca Tree Hiddle ("Sal"). Sal's mother has recently left Sal's father, and Sal's grandparents are taking her on a cross-country car trip to Lewiston, Idaho to see her. On the trip, Sal entertains her grandparents by telling her a story about her friend More...

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Jan 30, 2011

Aaron rated it:

Walk Two Moons felt like the kind of book my English teacher assigned in Junior High: obnoxiously pedantic prose coupled with an overt, over-the-top message, all wrapped in the trappings of characters with unbelievable traits in impossible situations.

The main character, Salamanca ("Sal"), is going on a cross-country journey to visit her mother. The author, Sharon Creech, attempts to tell a story-within-a-story, as Sal recounts the tale of her friend's family. It is not poss More...

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Sep 23, 2010

Clare rated it:

I read the book Walk Two Moons and it was interesting and terrific! Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech, takes place in present day or little earlier in Kentucky and on a car ride from Ohio to Idaho. The main character is Salamanca Hiddle who brave and smart. This story is very interesting and page turning, due to Salamanca's story and if she is going to make it to Idaho in time . Salamanca has to make it to Idaho in time for her mother's birthday on the way she tell her grandparents a very odd More...

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Sep 20, 2010

Alex!s rated it:

It was so awsome!!! it is very mysterous and funny to. i just finished reading it in reading class!!!i recommend it to anyone. it it full of similes, meatphors, and personifacation!some kids and even adults can relate to this magnicicent book. it is about where a girl named Sal lives with her dad in Bybanks,Kentucky because her mother leaves to go to Lewiston, Idaho.Then Sal and her father move to Euclid, Ohio and she meets Phoebe.[a girl who is a little crazy]she thinks a lady named Mrs.Cadaver More...

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Jul 15, 2010

Sue rated it:

This was my favorite book of my summer reads! When I was young I did a lot of traveling by car with my family and still enjoy traveling today. I just loved the way Creech described the scenery and the adventures that Sal and Gram and Gramps went on. I felt as if I were in the car riding with them on this exciting and emotional journey. Once I started this book I literally didn’t put it down until I was finished. There were so many twists and turns in the plot that it kept me wanted to know w More...

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