Walk Two Moons - Softcover

Physical description: 244 pages. ; 20 cm. Notes: Originally published: 1994. Summary: After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left. Don't judge a man until you've walked two moons in his moccasins. What is the meaning of this strange message left on the doorstep? Only Sal knows, and on a roadtrip with her grandparents she tells the bizarre tale of Phoebe Winterbottom, Phoebe's disappearing mother and the lunatic. But who can help Sal make sense of the mystery that surrounds her own story . . . and her own missing mother? Review: "A really satisfying book - funny, poignant, cunning in the unravelling of its mysteries." The Observer" Biography: Sharon Creech is the author of several books for children and young adults and has won, or been shortlisted for, nearly every major literary award for children's books, both in the USA and UK, as well as selling all over the world. Most recently, she won the Carnegie Medal for outstanding children's literature with her novel Ruby Holler . Sharon is an American who lived in England for nineteen years. She now lives in New Jersey, USA, with her husband. Subjects: Alienation (Social psychology) - Juvenile fiction. Children's stories - Bereavement - Death - Families - Mystery. Genre: Children's Fiction.