The Horn Book Magazine, May 1st, 1997
Sharon Creech 261 pp. Cotler/HarperCollins 3/97 ISBN 0-06-026987-1 14.95 Library edition ISBN 0-06-026988-X 14.89 (Intermediate)
Setting the story in Bybanks, Kentucky, where Walk Two Moons begins and ends, Sharon Creech has written a striking novel, notable for its emotional honesty. Thirteen-year-old Zinny is usually submerged into silence, overwhelmed by a large and boisterous family. Moreover, she has always been deeply attached to her quiet, idiosyncratic relatives next door; but now Zinny has only her beloved elderly Uncle Nate, for her cousin Rose, who was exactly Zinny's age, died a...
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