Sharon Creech's Walk Two Moon

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When I moved away from my house in Colorado, I always missed it. So I always thought about going all the way back. It's just like the novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech when Sal moved away from her barn in Bybanks, Kentucky. In the novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, the barn in Bybanks, Kentucky is an important setting to Sal because she wants to go back because she had a swimming hole, animals that were special to her and her favorite maple tree. Sal always thinks about her barn in Bybanks, Kentucky like how I think about my house in Colorado. In Bybanks, Kentucky it is an important setting to Sal because she lived about her thirteen years in Bybanks, Kentucky. At the start when she was in the car with her grandparents Sal says

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