Pub Date: January 10, 1997
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 95022448
Lexile Code: 0840
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: 08 to 12
Physical Info: 0.59" H x 7.62" L x 5.18" W ( 0.36 lbs) 256 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Adolescence and Coming of Age | Girls and Women | Family | Multigenerational | New Experience | SelfEsteem and SelfReliance | Native American | Humorous Stories
Series: Walk Two Moons
Description: Mary Lou Finney grudgingly begins writing a journal as a summer project for school. Then her cousin Carl Ray comes to stay, and what started out as a dull assignment quickly becomes an amazing record of first love and family intrigue. Mary Lou's hilarious observations on love, death, and the confusing mechanics of holding hands will delight fans of "Walk Two Moons."
Brief description:
Sharon Creech has written twenty-one books for young people and is published in over twenty languages. Her books have received awards in both the U.S. and abroad, including the Newbery Medal for Walk Two Moons, the Newbery Honor for The Wanderer, and Great Britain's Carnegie Medal for Ruby Holler.
Before beginning her writing career, Sharon Creech taught English for fifteen years in England and Switzerland. She lives in Maine, "lured there by my grandchildren," Creech says.
www.sharoncreech.com
Review Quotes: "By turning sarcastic, tender, and irreverent, this is a real piece of contemporary teen life from one funny writer. [It] will quickly make its way into the hands of readers who loved WALK TWO MOONS."Kirkus Reviews