Sharon Creech

Karana of the Island of the Blue Dolphin, by Scott O’Dell, and Sal of Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, were adolescent females, with long black hair, and both were are all or part Native American Indian, each lost their mother prior to the beginning of their story and lost one or more close family members along the way. Their loss drastically changed their lives. The environment, socioeconomics and circumstances surrounding each of them was very different, as was their emotional journey, healing…

Courage, big word right? The characters in my book are risking a lot for people. In Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech and “The King of Mazy May” by Jack London. This helped the theme develop a lot from this. In Walk Two Moons Phoebe cares about her mom a lot and she is doing a lot to find out where she went. Phoebe is going to the police because she thinks that her mom is missing. “She explained about her mother disappearing, and the note from Mrs. Cadaver’s missing husband, and the rhododendron,…

The book I read this year over the summer is called, “Ruby Holler”. The Author of this book is Sharon Creech. Sharon Creech has a great imagination. She makes this book flow so wonderfully. She makes me feel that I am in the book because of the great details she adds in this book. I am glad that Sharon chose to write about fiction. Ruby Holler was an amazing book! Two twins named,Dallas and Florida were abandoned from their mother and became orphans. They both didn't believe in a loving…

In the novel, Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, the protagonist Sal explains that “when my mother had been there, I was like a mirror. If she was happy. I was happy. If she was sad, I was sad.” (pg. 25) By this Sal meant that when she was with her mother she had not felt her own feelings but was just copying or reflecting her mother’s feelings. This shows that Sal’s relationship with her mother was overly close and that they did not have healthy emotional boundaries. Sal didn’t know where she…

Max Lanedo once said you change your life by changing your heart. In the novel walk two moons by Sharon Creech sal encounters external forces that causes her to grow and change The first external force is that sal experiences the city sal goes to the city and she does not see any trees or anything from the country one quote is “no trees no swimming hole” the reason I chose this quote is because it shows that sal does not like the city because gramps says I am a county girl at heart and she…

You might think ghosts aren’t real. Well, that’s only because you can’t see them. 9-year-old Dennis can. In Pleasing The Ghost by Sharon Creech, Dennis has had multiple encounters with ghosts. Sometimes strangers and sometimes relatives. They usually leave at some point, but one doesn’t. Dennis’s uncle- Uncle Arvie. Uncle Arvie knows there will be some struggles along the way that only a living person could get through. This makes me think that the allegory of this story is that with the help of…

Bybanks is home. In this story Salamanca Tree Hiddle tells a tale with that has her own underneath it. Sal tells a story about her friend Phoebe and realizes that her tale is inside. Bybanks, Kentucky was the home of the hiddles. Sal, John, and Chanhassen lived in Bybanks on a farm that would someday be very important to Sal and John. Have you ever moved and left everything behind. Sal moved from Bybanks with her father because it seemed that the ghost of her mother was haunting the farm. They…

Book Report Title: Heartbeat Author: Sharon Creech Pages: 413 1. Characters; 12 year old girl named, Annie. She loves to run. 13 year old boy that’s named Max. Annie’s mom, and Annie’s grandpa. 2. Background: Mom is pregnant. Grandpa used to run. He made it all the way to the Olympics but quit because he found out that his wife was pregnant. He swore to never talk about it again. 3. Motivation: running is in Annie’s…

Koby Bourgeois Unit 2 EA. 1 The passage “The Guest” retold by Uma Krishnaswami and the novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech both have a similar theme that is told through the character’s actions, words, or thoughts. The theme is don’t judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes. In Walk Two Moons the theme is shown through the character’s thoughts. A girl named Sal has some thoughts about a lady named Mrs. Cadaver being a murderer and burying her husband under a rhododendron…

Literary essay Zil Patel The novel Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech is always getting readers to connect to the novel in almost every chapter. While you reading this book it will take you on so many adventures with Dallas and Florida. The novel takes place at this horrible orphanage with two grumpy old people that take care of the two twins. while they find a family for the two twins. Later on, in the story, the twins get adopted. The conflict was that every time…