Annie's Book Review

Walk Two Moons

Author- Sharon Creech

Publisher- Scholastic Inc.

Place and year of publication- New York, 1994

Number of pages- 280

Where I found it- I own it

The title of the book shows a main event in the book. It is a piece of a message from a mysterious character called the “potential lunatic.” This book is about a girl named Salamanca Tree Hiddle, nicknamed Sal. She lives with her mother and father on an old farm in Bybanks, Kentucky. Unexpectedly, her mother leaves to Lewiston, Idaho with no warning. This devastates Sal and her father and, as a result of this situation, her father does not want to stay on the farm. Her father decides to take her to Euclid, Ohio three hundred miles from Bybanks. This makes Salamanca very upset. Her father takes her to a mysterious woman named Margret in Euclid. And now she has to live in Euclid with her father.

Later on, Sal decides to go on a 2000 mile trip with her grandparents to Lewiston, Idaho They are going to find her mother for her birthday, in hopes to bring her back home and reunite the family. The day they got in the car to leave, she begins to tell her grandparents the story of Phoebe Winterbottom.

Phoebe is a peculiar girl that Salamanca met in school. They became good friends. Just as Sal’s mother disappears, Phoebe’s mother disappears as well. Phoebe goes to drastic measures to find her mother. She finds more messages and more clues along the way. But something strange happens. Phoebe begins to find strange messages from who she believes is, a “potential lunatic.” Will Sal bring her mother back? Will Phoebe find her mother? The story is full of excitement.

The story of Phoebe and the 2000 mile trip with Sal jumps back and forth. This makes the story more exciting and gives it more variety and suspense.

Christian Perspective

I don’t think that this book is made to be a Christian story. I think it focuses on adventure. Though it didn’t say anything against God, I think they could have changed the story to have God play a part in the lives of the main characters. Phoebe and Sal could have been praying about the situation asking for answers, but that may not keep the adventure in the story. It would calm down the situation and make it a lot less dramatic.

My thoughts

I chose this book because it was recommended to me by many people. I liked the book because it had a lot of variety. It had two stories at the same time - the one of Phoebe and the one with the trip to Idaho. This kept you on the look out for what happens next. It also adds excitement to the story when Phoebe gets the messages from the “potential lunatic.” You can decide what you think the message means because it doesn’t tell you anything about the person. There wasn’t anything I didn’t like about the story because I’m an eager reader. I would recommend this book to someone with an imaginative, adventurous mind because it is an adventure story and it lets you imagine what’s going to happen next before you read it.