--- product_id: 44726622 title: "Walk Two Moons: A Newbery Award Winner" price: "KD 3.81" currency: KWD in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.com.kw/products/44726622-walk-two-moons-a-newbery-award-winner store_origin: KW region: Kuwait --- # Explores diverse cultures Newbery Award Winner Timeless storytelling Walk Two Moons: A Newbery Award Winner **Price:** KD 3.81 **Availability:** βœ… In Stock ## Summary > πŸ“– Dive into a world of wonder and wisdom! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Walk Two Moons: A Newbery Award Winner - **How much does it cost?** KD 3.81 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.kw](https://www.desertcart.com.kw/products/44726622-walk-two-moons-a-newbery-award-winner) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - β€’ **A Journey of Discovery:** Embark on a heartfelt adventure that transcends generations. - β€’ **Perfect for Book Clubs:** Spark meaningful discussions with friends and fellow readers. - β€’ **Rich Cultural Tapestry:** Delve into the beauty of diverse backgrounds and experiences. - β€’ **Award-Winning Excellence:** Join the ranks of literary greatness with this celebrated novel. - β€’ **Engaging Narrative Style:** Experience a captivating blend of humor and emotion. ## Overview Walk Two Moons is a Newbery Award-winning novel that follows the journey of a young girl named Salamanca Tree Hiddle as she travels across the country to find her mother. Through her adventures, readers are introduced to a rich tapestry of cultural experiences and emotional depth, making it a timeless classic for readers of all ages. ## Description In her own singularly beautiful style, Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech intricately weaves together two tales, one funny, one bittersweet, to create a heartwarming, compelling, and utterly moving story of love, loss, and the complexity of human emotion. Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle, proud of her country roots and the "Indian-ness in her blood," travels from Ohio to Idaho with her eccentric grandparents. Along the way, she tells them of the story of Phoebe Winterbottom, who received mysterious messages, who met a "potential lunatic," and whose mother disappeared. As Sal entertains her grandparents with Phoebe's outrageous story, her own story begins to unfoldΒ—the story of a thirteen-year-old girl whose only wish is to be reunited with her missing mother. Review: Hope prevails - Salamanca "Sal" Tree Hiddle is telling a story to her Gram and Gramps. While on a road-trip trek from Ohio to Idaho, with the trees whispering for her to `hurry, rush, hurry' Sal is recounting the story of her friend, Phoebe Winterbottom and the lunatic who changed her life. But in the telling of Phoebe's tale, Sal is learning the truth of the old proverb: "Don't judge a man until you've walked two moons in his moccasins" . . . because Phoebe's story is entangled in Sal's own, and what happened when her mother left for the badlands. `Walk Two Moons' by Sharon Creech was first published in 1994, and won the Newbery Medal in 1995. It has since become an American children's classic, and for good reason. I read the last chapter of Sharon Creech's `Walk Two Moons' aboard the Number-57 tram. Lumbering towards Lonsdale Street I started to cry, and by the time I'd arrived at my North Melbourne destination I was attracting curious stares from my fellow commuters. This book wrecked me, in the best possible way. We meet Salamanca "Sal" Tree Hiddle shortly after her father has uprooted her from Bybanks, Kentucky and the last memories of her mother. Now they live in Euclid, Ohio next-door to Margaret Cadaver and her blind mother. But when the book begins Sal is at the beginning of a road-trip journey to Idaho with her Gram and Gramps. Something in the trees is compelling Sal to rush across the American heartland, to get to Idaho and her mother . . . but along the way Gram and Gramps want to be entertained. So Sal starts telling them a story. She tells them about her new life in Euclid, where she has befriended the prudish Phoebe Winterbottom, whose family is undergoing a change somewhat similar to the one Sal's little family went through not so long ago. Sal also talks about Ben Finney, who imagines a soul similar to her own and keeps trying to plant a kiss on Sal's lips. `Walk Two Moon's is a novel of beautiful equilibrium; at once terribly sad, and terribly funny. In recounting the story of Phoebe's lunatic, who brings her family crashing down, Sal paints a wonderful picture of her best friend; a young girl whose wild imagination is rivalled only by her snobbish temperance. Sal recounts Phoebe's story like a puzzle she's piecing together for her Gram and Gramps - explaining the cryptic messages that were first left on the Winterbottom porch, and then the various investigations Phoebe and Sal conducted searching for the lunatic. But Phoebe's story has a deeper meaning for Sal, who draws parallels between the Winterbottom's struggles and the events that led to her mother leaving Sal and her father behind to go on the very same Idaho road-trip Sal is currently undertaking with her grandparents. `Walk Two Moons' is glorious. For a long time it feels almost like Sal's story is a collection of vignettes as she recounts the many memories she has of her mother, the enigmatic Chanhassen Hiddle. So many things trigger memories for Sal, something as harmless as a blackberry pie holds a landmine of remembrance. But in teasing out the memories, and questioning the events that led up to her mother leaving home, Sal's story begins to take shape. I wouldn't say that `Walk Two Moons' is ever a strictly linear story - though Sal's recounting Phoebe's lunatic tale is a fairly straightforward narrative, Sal explaining her own story takes many twists and turns. She's a young woman who has gone through a lot of life changes in a very short amount of time - not least of which includes moving away from the only home she has ever known, a new shivery awareness of Ben Finney and the colossal hole her mother's leaving gouged in her heart. It often happens that to understand one component of her changing world, Sal has to go back and look at old memories with a fresh perspective. This is a rather lovely facet of childhood-into-adulthood that Creech explains at Sal's slow and steady pace. Half-way through the book, you will begin to feel a niggling of sadness. Something is on the horizon, and the same way that Sal hears trees telling her to `rush, hurry' or `slow, slow' - so too will the sadness of this book start whispering. It's a creeping kind of sadness - beautifully teased by Creech increment by increment. But there's an overarching theme in the book, concerning the Greek myth of Pandora's Box, a subject Sal's class are studying in English. By the end, tears in my eyes, I decided that `Walk Two Moons' was a literary Pandora's Box in itself - that although there was incredible sadness and pain within, the slivers of hope are the lasting effect of Creech's wonderful novel. The lessons Sal learns, her singing tree, blackberry kisses, the shivery feeling Ben ignites and Phoebe's lunatic are all so beautifully hopeful that the sadness, though sharp, does not prevail - hope does. Review: A cherished memory - So I bought this book as "new" but it seems like someone was reading this then decided to stop and sell it or give it to a thrift store. I even smelled the book from just opening it and I know this was a grandma's book that they gave me. All I have to say it adds character to the book it made me giggle actually. My elementary School made us read this book and I always wanted my own book and getting this book was fun and precious to me. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,086,024 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #25 in Children’s Books about Libraries & Reading #141 in Children's Chapter Books (Books) #361 in Children's Classics | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 6,300 Reviews | ## Images ![Walk Two Moons: A Newbery Award Winner - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61g2B+a+3wL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hope prevails *by A***R on July 20, 2012* Salamanca "Sal" Tree Hiddle is telling a story to her Gram and Gramps. While on a road-trip trek from Ohio to Idaho, with the trees whispering for her to `hurry, rush, hurry' Sal is recounting the story of her friend, Phoebe Winterbottom and the lunatic who changed her life. But in the telling of Phoebe's tale, Sal is learning the truth of the old proverb: "Don't judge a man until you've walked two moons in his moccasins" . . . because Phoebe's story is entangled in Sal's own, and what happened when her mother left for the badlands. `Walk Two Moons' by Sharon Creech was first published in 1994, and won the Newbery Medal in 1995. It has since become an American children's classic, and for good reason. I read the last chapter of Sharon Creech's `Walk Two Moons' aboard the Number-57 tram. Lumbering towards Lonsdale Street I started to cry, and by the time I'd arrived at my North Melbourne destination I was attracting curious stares from my fellow commuters. This book wrecked me, in the best possible way. We meet Salamanca "Sal" Tree Hiddle shortly after her father has uprooted her from Bybanks, Kentucky and the last memories of her mother. Now they live in Euclid, Ohio next-door to Margaret Cadaver and her blind mother. But when the book begins Sal is at the beginning of a road-trip journey to Idaho with her Gram and Gramps. Something in the trees is compelling Sal to rush across the American heartland, to get to Idaho and her mother . . . but along the way Gram and Gramps want to be entertained. So Sal starts telling them a story. She tells them about her new life in Euclid, where she has befriended the prudish Phoebe Winterbottom, whose family is undergoing a change somewhat similar to the one Sal's little family went through not so long ago. Sal also talks about Ben Finney, who imagines a soul similar to her own and keeps trying to plant a kiss on Sal's lips. `Walk Two Moon's is a novel of beautiful equilibrium; at once terribly sad, and terribly funny. In recounting the story of Phoebe's lunatic, who brings her family crashing down, Sal paints a wonderful picture of her best friend; a young girl whose wild imagination is rivalled only by her snobbish temperance. Sal recounts Phoebe's story like a puzzle she's piecing together for her Gram and Gramps - explaining the cryptic messages that were first left on the Winterbottom porch, and then the various investigations Phoebe and Sal conducted searching for the lunatic. But Phoebe's story has a deeper meaning for Sal, who draws parallels between the Winterbottom's struggles and the events that led to her mother leaving Sal and her father behind to go on the very same Idaho road-trip Sal is currently undertaking with her grandparents. `Walk Two Moons' is glorious. For a long time it feels almost like Sal's story is a collection of vignettes as she recounts the many memories she has of her mother, the enigmatic Chanhassen Hiddle. So many things trigger memories for Sal, something as harmless as a blackberry pie holds a landmine of remembrance. But in teasing out the memories, and questioning the events that led up to her mother leaving home, Sal's story begins to take shape. I wouldn't say that `Walk Two Moons' is ever a strictly linear story - though Sal's recounting Phoebe's lunatic tale is a fairly straightforward narrative, Sal explaining her own story takes many twists and turns. She's a young woman who has gone through a lot of life changes in a very short amount of time - not least of which includes moving away from the only home she has ever known, a new shivery awareness of Ben Finney and the colossal hole her mother's leaving gouged in her heart. It often happens that to understand one component of her changing world, Sal has to go back and look at old memories with a fresh perspective. This is a rather lovely facet of childhood-into-adulthood that Creech explains at Sal's slow and steady pace. Half-way through the book, you will begin to feel a niggling of sadness. Something is on the horizon, and the same way that Sal hears trees telling her to `rush, hurry' or `slow, slow' - so too will the sadness of this book start whispering. It's a creeping kind of sadness - beautifully teased by Creech increment by increment. But there's an overarching theme in the book, concerning the Greek myth of Pandora's Box, a subject Sal's class are studying in English. By the end, tears in my eyes, I decided that `Walk Two Moons' was a literary Pandora's Box in itself - that although there was incredible sadness and pain within, the slivers of hope are the lasting effect of Creech's wonderful novel. The lessons Sal learns, her singing tree, blackberry kisses, the shivery feeling Ben ignites and Phoebe's lunatic are all so beautifully hopeful that the sadness, though sharp, does not prevail - hope does. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A cherished memory *by M***F on January 25, 2026* So I bought this book as "new" but it seems like someone was reading this then decided to stop and sell it or give it to a thrift store. I even smelled the book from just opening it and I know this was a grandma's book that they gave me. All I have to say it adds character to the book it made me giggle actually. My elementary School made us read this book and I always wanted my own book and getting this book was fun and precious to me. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Lovely book, and a wonderful read *by R***Y on August 1, 2014* What an inspiring story. Filled with the love of mothers, fathers and a set of very special grandparents, Salamanca(Sal) Tree Hiddle's story is about growing up. Sal is thirteen and her mother has left their Kentucky farm to see a relative in Ohio, but she never comes back. Sal's father moves to Ohio where Sal meets Phoebe Winterbottom(what wonderful names the author comes up with), a girl who's mother soon leaves her family mysteriously. In the present day, Sal's wonderfully excentric grandparents take Sal on a car ride to retrace the steps her mother took on her bus ride to Ohio. Sal feels the need to be in Idaho(where her mother was headed), by her mother's birthday. While on the seven day car ride, Sal tells her grandparents about her friend Phoebe and how her mother had disappeared. Side by side, the two threads of both Sal's present life and Phoebe's past life, intertwin, and Sal learns some hard truths about life in general. While it may seem to be a simple story, the depth with which Sharon Creech writes gives this story many layers and much wisdom. There are two many wonderful passages to quote, but I'd give this book to any child no matter what the age, and any adult because it's just so readable. What I really enjoyed were the references to trees. The author uses them the family and how they nourish us, and love us unconditionally, and most especially how they endure. Sal's life is an echo of what it's like to be in the netherlands between a child and an adult reminding me of how embarrassing it was to be that age. Of course when you're going through it, you're certain that everyone else has things figured out which is why books like this are so important; they show us that everyone is feeling as confused and out of sorts as we are. This book deserves it's Newbery Award for sure. It's the kind of book where the characters live on in your mind for a life time. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - πŸ›’ **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** β€” Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** β€” Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - πŸ’° **No Hidden Fees** β€” All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - πŸ”„ **15-Day Free Returns** β€” Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - πŸ”’ **Secure Payments** β€” Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** β€” Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.com.kw/products/44726622-walk-two-moons-a-newbery-award-winner](https://www.desertcart.com.kw/products/44726622-walk-two-moons-a-newbery-award-winner) --- *Product available on Desertcart Kuwait* *Store origin: KW* *Last updated: 2026-05-14*