| Alabama Moon Contributor(s): Key, Watt (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312384289 ISBN-13: 9780312384289 Publisher: Square Fish OUR PRICE: $8.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2008 Annotation: For as long as ten-year-old Moon can remember, he has lived out in the forest in a shelter with his father. When Moons father dies, Moon follows his fathers last instructions: to travel to Alaska to find others like themselves. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Family - Orphans & Foster Homes - Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure - Survival Stories - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Bullying |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 720 |
| Series: Alabama Moon |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.1" W x 7.6" (0.50 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Alabama - Cultural Region - South |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 109348 Reading Level: 4.1 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 11.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For as long as ten-year-old Moon can remember, he has lived out in the forest in a shelter with his father. They keep to themselves, their only contact with other human beings an occasional trip to the nearest general store. When Moon's father dies, Moon follows his father's last instructions: to travel to Alaska to find others like themselves. But Moon is soon caught and entangled in a world he doesn't know or understand; he's become property of the government he has been avoiding all his life. As the spirited and resourceful Moon encounters constables, jails, institutions, lawyers, true friends, and true enemies, he adapts his wilderness survival skills and learns to survive in the outside world, and even, perhaps, make his home there. This title has Common Core connections. Alabama Moon is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. |
Contributor Bio(s): Key, Watt: - Albert Watkins Key, Jr., publishing under the name Watt Key, is an award-winning southern fiction author. He grew up and currently lives in southern Alabama with his wife and family. Watt spent much of his childhood hunting and fishing the forests of Alabama, which inspired his debut novel, Alabama Moon, published to national acclaim in 2006. Alabama Moon won the 2007 E.B. White Read-Aloud Award, was included on Time Magazine's list of the Best One Hundred YA Books of All Time, and has been translated in seven languages. |