Walk Two Moons
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Walk Two Moons is a novel written by Sharon Creech and published in 1994 which won the 1995 Newbery Medal.
Salamanca Tree Hiddle (called Sal throughout most of the book) packs and moves with her widowed father from Bybanks, Kentucky to Euclid, Ohio where the woman she thinks her father wants to marry, Margaret, lives. Sal doesn't like her very much, and when her grandparents plan to take a road trip visit her mother (and their daughter-in-law) in Lewiston, Idaho, she goes with them and relates the story of her and her friend in Euclid, Phoebe Winterbottom.
The story, which alternates with the present-day setting of the text, helps Sal to achieve closure with her mom and accept a new life with her new and extended families.
Companions
Absolutely Normal Chaos takes place before the book and rotates around Sal's friend Mary Lou Finney, while Chasing Redbird rotates around Sal's old friend Zinny from Bybanks, although the subject of Walk Two Moons is hardly ever mentioned.