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by Sharon Creech
Andrew Moeller
Sharon Creech's writing style in this novel is a narrative style. She also uses metaphors in this book.
In the beginning of the story Sal is looking back to a year ago when her father packed them up and moved them to Euclid, Ohio from Bybanks, Kentucky. The characters in the beginning are very sad, Sal and her father because her mother left them. Her father misses her mother terribly. Sal then tells how she met her friend, Phoebe winterbottom and a woman named Margaret.
My favorite character in the book is Gramps. He is very generous, caring, thoughtful and energetic. He also reminds me of my Grandpa.
Sal is the main character. She is a thirteen year old girl and she is the narrator of the story. She is a country girl with very long straight black hair. Her formal name given to her by her parents is Salmanaca which she was named after her great-great grandmother's Indian Tribe. Her middle name is Tree, which is short for Sugar Maple Tree. Sal's Gramps and Gram nicknamed her "Chickabiddy". Some of the boys like to tease her by calling her Salamander. Sal lives in Bybanks, Kentucky near the Ohio River, with her father and his parents, her grandparents in the story.
My review of the book is that it is an excellent storyline. It is a story about a 13 year old girl who learns about death at a very young age and also learns ab out love. She begins to understand people better by Walking in Their Shoes. I would recommend this book to a friend.
poem: "hi my name is sal"
"and i am phoebes pal."
Going on a trip from ohio to idaho, will i find my mother? i dont know.
Chickbiddy is my nickname, and my life will will never be the same.
I think its a shame. " where are you mother?"
My favorite part in the in the book is Chapter 15, A Snake Has a Snack. Gramps, Gram, and Sal stop in South Dakota at the Missouri River to take a break from their cross country trip from Ohio to Idaho. Gram is bit by a water moccassin. It was suspenseful and I didn't know if Gram was going to die or not. If Gram died it would change the whole story.
At the end of the story Gram dies. Gramps and Sal's father are sad about her dying, but they decide to all move back to their farm in Bybanks, Kentucky. Sal has changed from a grieving young girl to a more mature adolescent. She was able to trace her mother's final footsteps and learn to deal with her grief by walking in her mother's shoes. Sal discovered a lot about herself in her journery from Ohio to Lewiston, Idaho.
In the middle of the book, Sal reveals more information about her mother and why she may have been distressed and left them to sort out some personal problems. Sal's mother had a miscarriage and couldn't have anymore children afterword. Sal blamed herself for the baby dying because it was the same day that Sal went into the woods and her mother had to carry her home. The baby came the same day, which was three weeks early and had the umbilical cord wrapped around its neck which strangled the baby. Also in the middle of the book Sal and Phoebe's friendship strenghtens. Sal continues to dislike Margaret Cadaver.