Publication Date: May 19, 1994
Reading Level: Lexile Measure 770L, Scholastic Guided Reading Level W
Interest Level: Grades 5-7
Major Awards: 1995 Newbery Medal Winner
Number of Pages: 304 pages
Approximate Word Count: 92,720 words -- The average reader will spend 6 hours and 10 minutes reading Walk Two Moons at 250 words per minute.*
Audible Book Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
Book Themes: Identity, Guilt and Blame, Family, Change/Abandonment, Visions fo America, Memory of the Past, Death
Genre: Coming-of-Age, Young Adult, Quest, Mystery
Setting: On Sal's road trip from Euclid, OH to Lewiston, ID, she and her grandparents stop in a lot of places:
- Chicago, Illinois
- Madison, Wisconsin
- The Wisconsin Dells
- Pipestone National Monument, Minnesota
- The Missouri River in South Dakota
- The Badlands and Mount Rushmore in South Dakota
- Old Faithful in Wyoming
- Coeur d'Alene in Idaho
- Lewiston in Idaho
Important Quote:
“Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game...You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen, but it's hardly ever what you expect.”
First Line: Gramps says that I am a country girl at heart, and that is true.
Point of View: First Person (limited - Salamanca Hiddle )
*Estimate from Reading Length
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