Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons: Chasing Redbird

Pros: A textured, beautifully written, amazingly touching and affecting book.

Cons: Contains real sadness. If you try to shelter your child from that, steer clear.

The Bottom Line: This is a book deserving of reading by young adults and adults alike, as well as for younger children who have experienced real loss.

Review: Bibliotherapy is the use of literature for the purpose of healing. A child with problems can feel less alone in the world by reading about another child with similar problems. Walk Two Moons would be excellent therapy for a child who has ...

Pros: Beautifully written story of not judging others

Cons: hard for under 10 to read

Review: This Newberry Medal Honor book by Sharon Creech is full of lifes' little lessons. I have a pre-teen daughter who loves to read, so this book was originally bought for her. She read it and loved it when she was twelve. I decided to read some of the...

Pros: Appeals to adults and children alike!

Cons: Hard to put down!

Review: Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech, came highly-recommended to me by a friend who also happens to be a children's book author. She didn't tell me much except that I ought to get the book and read it.

I took her advice and was glad I did!...

Pros: Fun and easy to read, and a fantastic break from science-fiction.

Cons: Not much here, except that Sharon Creech should have done more with Sal and Ben.

The Bottom Line: This book perfect for girls ages 10-14 and a great outlet for young teens. Definitely two thumbs up.

Review: I am a thirteen-year-old girl who read Walk Two Moons and has never been the same. This book is absolutely essential for any girl's bookcase. During this last summer, my Grandma decided she would read all of the Newberry Award-winning books and ...

Pros: Beautifully crafted tale with almost universal appeal

Cons: None!

Review: Sharon Creech's Walk Two Moons is a beautifully constructed story, chronicling a very personal road trip taken by a young girl, Sal, and her grandparents. In the story within the story, Sal regales her grandparents with tales and misadventures of her...

Pros: an entertaining, funny story full of surprises.

Cons: none

The Bottom Line: You will want to read Walk Two Moons again and again. This detailed, emotional, yet also funny story will touch you. A must read!

Review: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech is a entertaining, fast moving book full of twists, surprises, laughs and emotion. It is one of those stories that you will remember. Its plot is very original. Salamanca Tree Hiddle, a 13-year old Native American girl, is...

Pros: Wonderful story line and characters! Written in a very humorous and loving way that gives respect, love, and life to the characters.

Cons: Deals with issues of loss/death

Review: This is a very moving story about a girl hoping to bring back the most important thing in her life to ever leave: her mother. Intertwined with the sadness and pain of losing the one closest to her, our narrator and main character, 13 year-old Salamanca...

Pros: none

Cons: none

The Bottom Line: All in all Walk two Moons is a great book.

Review: This book is a great book for all ages.It gets exciting at the very beginning.It is a comedy,a tradgedy and it is soft a like a romance.If you are a parent or teacher this would be a great book for you to read to your class or your kids. The author...

Pros: This book was good and clean reading.

Cons: I would have liked to had more detail in the visits to Pipestone, MN and Sioux Falls, SD.

Review: This book was a wonderful and fun book for me to read. I like to read books for teens and this was one I would recommend to all to read. My sister had told me about this book months before I bought it in a yard sale. I had forgotten about it until I...

Pros: Well written dialogue; a sad story

Cons: none

Review: Sharon Creech has written many very good stories. But in my opinion, this one is the best. Salamanca Tree Hiddle: Young native American girl, on a journey to find out truly if her mother is gone. She thinks she must get there before her mother's ...