| Salamanca Tree Hiddle, known as Sal, is traveling from Ohio to Idaho with her grandparents, looking for her mother. While they are going, Sal tells her grandparents a story of Phoebe WInterbottom, her friend back in Ohio, whose mother also disappeared, and received peculiar messages from a lunatic.
Phoebe Winterbottom was living happily until she met a weird man on the streets that asked for her name. Phoebe started getting messages from a mysterious person like "Don't judge a man until you've walked two moons in his moccasins." She thought they were from the man she met on the street. After that, her mother disappeared. Phoebe and Sal track her down until they go to the Chanting Falls University. They find Mrs. Winterbottom, kissing the lunatic. Mrs. Winterbottom comes home and she tells the family that the lunatic is actually her long-lost son, Mike. Phoebe stops worrying, even though she is was a little angry, and the story ends happily. Sal arrives at Coeur D'Alene, Idaho and sees her mother's tombstone and kisses it. She goes back home, happily, to Ohio and lives happily ever after. | ||
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Plot & Themes Tone of book? - thoughtful Time/era of story - 1980's-1999 Kids growing up/acting up? Yes Is this an adult or child's book? - Age 11-14 Parents/lack of parents problem? Main Character Gender - Female Profession/status: Age: - a teen Ethnicity/Nationality Main Adversary Identity: - none Setting How much descriptions of surroundings? - 5 () United States Yes Writing Style Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog |
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