Walk Two Moons

This book is the winner of the Newberry Award for 1995. Walk Two Moons is a story about a girl named Sal and of her friend Phoebe. Both of the characters have have interesting relationships with their own families. Sal moves with her father from Bybanks, Kentucky to Euclid, Ohio to spend time with a woman named Margaret Cadaver whom Sal thinks her father is marrying. Sal's mother is said to have left for Lewiston, Idaho. Phoebe, Sals' friend in Euclid, meets a strange man whom which she later finds out is her mother's other child that she had given up for adoption.

Sal, with her grandparents, goes travels to Idaho to find her mother. Her grandmother has a stroke and can't continue the trip. When Sal arrives in Lewiston, she find out her mother was in a fatal bus accident and that Mrs. Cadaver is the only survivor. Sal's grandmother ends up dying in the hospital some time later as well.

The book has a lot of ups and downs as the characters show that they shouldn't make judgements about without knowing the big picture. This was a good book, and it would make a great book for students to read in literature circles in an upper elementary classroom.