Garden Heights · Independent Novel Study

Walk Two Moons

a novel by Sharon Creech

Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle is riding west from Ohio to Lewiston, Idaho with her unstoppable grandparents, retracing the route her mother traveled and hoping to arrive by Momma’s birthday. To pass the miles, Sal tells them the story of her friend Phoebe Winterbottom — a tale of mysterious messages left on the doorstep, a nervous stranger Phoebe swears is a lunatic, and a tidy household slowly turning upside down — and the further the car rolls, the more Sal’s own story peeks out from underneath Phoebe’s. Sharon Creech (author) won the 1995 Newbery Medal for this novel of a journey wrapped around a story wrapped around a secret. These 8 Part workbooks cover the full novel, with vocabulary, comprehension, literary analysis, Think Deeper reasoning, SAT & TOEFL-style practice, and writing, all built on real-world CLIL background.

Level 6Newbery Medal 1995Interactive & auto-gradedCLIL-based

Level 6 · Expert ReadersUS Grades 7–8Lexile 770LAR (ATOS) 4.9Newbery Medal (1995)

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Subject Personalities

The real-world subjects this novel study leans into — the depth behind every Knowledge Bank and reading passage.

PRIMARY LENS

🗺 The American West — Landscapes, Landmarks & the Geography of the Journey

The real geography under Sal’s trip — the Great Lakes, Pipestone’s sacred quarries, the Badlands, Mount Rushmore, and Yellowstone’s geysers — joined to the Seneca heritage Sal carries and what each landmark means to the peoples who knew it first.

SUPPORTING

🧠 The Psychology of Grief & Absence

Why people circle the things that hurt most instead of naming them — denial, longing, and the slow work of acceptance, seen in how Sal and Phoebe each respond to a mother’s absence.

SUPPORTING

🧶 The Frame Narrative — A Story Inside a Story

How Sharon Creech (author) nests Phoebe’s tale inside Sal’s road trip — why a narrator tells someone else’s story to reach her own, and the echoes that ping between the two plots.

8-Part Novel Study

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Progress

PT1

Part 1 · Chapters 1–6

Goodbye to the Bybanks Farm • Hitting the Road West With Gram and Gramps • Phoebe Winterbottom and the First Mysterious Message

VocabularyComprehensionLiterary ElementsThink DeeperStandardized TestWriting

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PT2

Part 2 · Chapters 7–11

Toes in an Ocean-Sized Lake Michigan • A Nervous Stranger at Phoebe’s Door • Blackberry Memories of Momma

VocabularyComprehensionLiterary ElementsThink DeeperStandardized TestWriting