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Walk two moons / by Sharon Creech.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 5780
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Creech, Sharon, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Idaho--Juvenile fiction.
- Idaho.
- Death--Juvenile fiction.
- Death.
- Grandparents--Juvenile fiction.
- Grandparents.
- Families--Juvenile fiction.
- Families.
- Friendship--Juvenile fiction.
- Friendship.
- Children's stories, American--21st century.
- Children's stories, American.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Creech, Sharon (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Miquon School (Conshohocken, Pa.). Library (bookplate) (stamp) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Sychowski, Diane (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Bridges, Milt (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [8], 280 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : HarperCollinsPublishers, [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.
- Contents:
- A face at the window
- The chickabiddy starts a story
- Bravery
- That's what I'm telling you
- A damsel in distress
- Blackberries
- Ill-ah-no-way
- The message
- Huzza, huzza
- Flinching
- The marriage bed
- Bouncing birkway
- The rhododendron
- A snake has a snack
- The singing tree
- In the course of a lifetime
- The good man
- Fish in the air
- The blackberry kiss
- Souls
- Evidence
- The badlands
- Birds of sadness
- Cholesterol
- Sacrifices
- Pandora's box
- The Black Hills
- The tide rises
- Breaking in
- The photograph
- Chicken and blackberry kisses
- The visitor
- Old faithful
- The plan
- The visit
- A kiss
- Spit
- Homecoming
- The gifts
- The overlook
- The bus and the willow
- Our gooseberry
- Bybanks.
- Notes:
- Newbery Medal, 1995
- American Library Association Notable Children's Book, 1995
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy inscribed by the author to "the children of Miquon School" on title leaf.
- Schimmel Collection copy has illustrated bookplate of Miquon School Library recording the gift of this volume by Diane Sychowski in memory of Milt Bridges on front free endpaper; stamp ("THE MIQUON SCHOOL LIBRARY" with manuscript additions "1996" and "9071") on front free endpaper and on book pocket affixed to verso of back free endpaper.
- Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 1273206012
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