Her mother has gone on a bus trip and has mailed postcards at every stop.
Suddenly the postcards stop coming. Sal sets out on a journey with her grandparents to follow the trail of the postcards to see if they can solve the mystery of what has happened to her mom.
Prepare to fall in love with her grandparents and prepare to share in the tales that Sal tells in the car, as they eat up the miles. Tissue box required! This book is the 1995 Newbery Medal winner.
288 pages 978-0062658777 Ages 9-13
Keywords: family, journey, mother/daughter, Newbery Medal, grandparents, love, loss, feelings, fears, 9 year old, 10 year old, 11 year old, 12 year old, 13 year old
**************** In her own singularly beautiful style, Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech intricately weaves together two tales, one funny, one bittersweet, to create a heartwarming, compelling, and utterly moving story of love, loss, and the complexity of human emotion.
Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle, proud of her country roots and the "Indian-ness in her blood," travels from Ohio to Idaho with her eccentric grandparents. Along the way, she tells them of the story of Phoebe Winterbottom, who received mysterious messages, who met a "potential lunatic," and whose mother disappeared.
As Sal entertains her grandparents with Phoebe's outrageous story, her own story begins to unfold—the story of a thirteen-year-old girl whose only wish is to be reunited with her missing mother.---from the publisher
