Walk Two Moons

Walk Two Moons

First edition cover with "Newbery Medal" First edition cover with "Newbery Medal" shield
Author	Sharon Creech
Language	English
Genre	Children's novel
Publisher	HarperCollins
Publication date	June 30, 1994
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
Pages	288 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN	ISBN 0-06-023334-6 (first edition, hardback)

Walk Two Moons is a novel written by Sharon Creech and published in 1994. It won the 1995 Newbery Medal.

Plot

Salamanca Tree Hiddle/Sal packs and moves with her father from Bybanks, Kentucky to Euclid, Ohio where the woman she thinks her father wants to marry, Margaret Cadaver, lives. Sal's mother, Chanhassen "Sugar" Hiddle moved earlier to Lewiston, Idaho, and is said not to be returning.

Sal doesn't like Margaret very much, and when her grandparents plan to take a road trip to visit her mother's (and their daughter-in-law) last known location in Lewiston, Idaho, she goes with them.

As the trip progresses, Sal passes the time by telling her grandparents the tale of her friend in Euclid, Phoebe Winterbottom, who has a strong belief that Mrs. Cadaver killed her husband (this is later proved untrue by Mr. Birkway, Sal & Phoebe's enthusiastic teacher, who is also Mrs Cadaver's brother). Mr. Cadaver died in a car accident. One day, a young man who Phoebe believed to be a "lunatic" came to the house, asking for her mother. When Mrs. Winterbottom hears about the young man, she becomes upset. Shortly after, she disappears, leaving a note saying that she's left on a trip as well as frozen dinners for the family. Phoebe becomes upset over her mother's suspicious disappearance and firmly believes that the "lunatic" kidnapped her. After some searching, Sal and Phoebe find out where the "lunatic" lives and see him sitting with Phoebe's mother at the university, and she's kissing him. According to Phoebe, they are embracing. Later, Mrs. Winterbottom returns with the "lunatic" and explains that he's her son from a previous affair who she had given up for adoption. The 'lunatic' becomes Phoebe's brother afterwards. Prudence and her Father welcome him into their family.But Pheobe is very upset with here mom

While Sal is telling the story of Phoebe, her grandmother is getting more and more sick. Until they have to stop on their way to find Sal's mother, and the grandmother is put into the hospital. A police officer eventually pulls her over, but he does not press any sort of charges, and he takes Sal to her mothers grave. It is after this that we find out that the only person who survived the bus crash (the bus that Sal's mother was on) was Margaret Cadaver, and that that is the reason Sal's father met her. The book ends with Sal's grandmother being buried on Sal's grandparents farm. And Sal learning to live with out her mother, and every step a new adventure!!

this is the best book ever...=D;)