The only way you could make out Momma’s grave was the ground that was sunk in over her and 1972 scratched on a limestone rock nearby. I never knew Pap to believe in things like that. I felt the loneliness he’d told me about crawling up from my stomach and into my throat. It was mid-January and the wind pulled at my hair and gray clouds slid through the trees and left the forest dripping. I buried him next to Momma where you could see the Noxubee River flowing coffee-colored down below. It took me most of a morning to get him into the wheelbarrow and haul him to the cedar grove on the bluff. Pap said he even figured I could whip somebody three times my size. I could find my way by the stars and make fire in the rain. I could trap my own food and make my own clothes.
I was ten years old and he’d taught me everything I needed to know about living out in the forest. He said I might feel lonely for a while, but that would go away.
Just before Pap died, he told me that I’d be fine as long as I never depended on anybody but myself. 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. When Moon's father dies, Moon follows his father's last instructions: to travel to Alaska to find others like themselves.
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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