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.Īlabama Moon is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. 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. The story of of the orphan boy Moon, begun in Watt Keys award-winning Alabama Moon, continues with Dirt Road Home After his recapture, gutsy 14-year-old Hal Mitchell is sentenced to live at Hellenweiler, an institution that is more like a. When Moon's father dies, Moon follows his father's last instructions: to travel to Alaska to find others like themselves. Dirt Road Home wlDL7H5CLIYC 224 By:'Watt Key' 'Juvenile Fiction' Published on by Macmillan. They keep to themselves, their only contact with other human beings an occasional trip to the nearest general store. In this compelling, action-packed book, Watt Key gives us the thrilling coming-of-age story of the unique and extremely appealing Alabama Moon, the basis for the film of the same name starring Jimmy Bennett and John Goodman.įor as long as ten-year-old Moon can remember, he has lived out in the forest in a shelter with his father.
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