Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
Walk Two Moons
Sharon Creech · 2003
92/100
👍 Worth It
A Newbery Medal winner that earns it — Sharon Creech's dual narrative structure, where Sal's cross-country journey slowly reveals the truth about her mother, is a masterwork of middle-grade storytelling. The grief is real and the ending hits hard, but it's the kind of hard that helps young readers understand loss rather than fear it. This is one of those books teachers keep assigning for thirty years because it keeps working.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety88
substance95
craft96
originality90
accuracy92
hype88
age-fit88
human-eye95
Penny’s verdict92
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