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Revision as of 17:32, 6 April 2010
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| Author | Sharon Creech |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's novel |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover, Paperback) |
| Pages | 288 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-06-023334-6 (first edition, hardback) Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character |
Walk Two Moons is a novel written by Sharon Creech and published in 1994. It won the 1995 Newbery Medal.
Plot
At the beginning of the story, Salamanca Tree Hiddle is taking a road trip with her grandparents to visit her mother in Lewiston, Idaho. To pass time, she tells her grandparents the story of her best friend, Phoebe Winterbottom. Similar to Sal's case, her mother unexpectedly dies one day. Sal meets Phoebe upon moving in to New York, New York. She and her father had previously lived on a farm in Bybanks, Kentucky, but decided to move closer to Margaret Cadaver, a woman whom Sal's father had befriended after they found out her mother wasn't returning. Phoebe is a high-strung, prim, and wildly imaginative girl. She feels certain that some sinister connection exists between the morbidly-named Mrs. Cadaver, who is her next-door neighbor, the mysterious notes that keep appearing on her family's doorstep, and the strange boy, whom Phoebe dubs the lunatic, who appears at the house one day. Sal gradually becomes caught up in her friend's melodrama and finds herself engaged in a heady flirtation with a boy from school, Jim.Sal intersperses Phoebe's story with memories of her mother, who was a loving, spontaneous woman. By this point in Sal's tale, she and her grandparents have reached South Dakota. They stop to swim in the Missouri River.
Sal and her grandparents take in Old Faithful, and Gram, whose breathing is troubled, revels in the splendor of the powerful geyser. When they leave Yellowstone National Park, Sal resumes her story, driven by a sense of urgency to finish it as soon as possible. Sal and Phoebe determine that the sergeant's daughter lives at a nearby college campus, and, convinced he holds the key to the mystery, take a planes to visit him. On campus, the two girls find the lunatic and Mrs. Springbottom sitting on a bench, holding hands. Sal, overwhelmed, runs away as fast as her legs can carry her. She finds herself at a mental hospital, where, to her surprise, she finds Ben and his mother, who is a patient at the hospital. The two young people giddily share a digusting first hickey. Mrs. Autumbottom returns home a few days later and explains to her family that the lunatic is actually her illegitimate son, about whom she had always been afraid to tell her family for fear of letting them down. The Winterbottoms are shaken, but ready to listen to Mrs. Winterbottom. At the same time, Sal decides that she will make amends with Mrs. Cadaver and listen to her story.In a certian part in the story the boy that Phoebe names the lunatic becomes phoebe's brother .