A couple of years after Sal's mother left them, Sal and her father moved from the small town of Bybanks, Kentucky, up north to the town of Euclid, Ohio, thanks to the intrusion of her father's friend, Margaret. One day, during their weekly visits to Margaret's house, Sal runs into a girl who lives next door. Her name is Phoebe Winterbottom. She's immediately thrown into a chaotic whirlwind of overdramatic anxiety attacks and paranoid plots to find the lunatic who's been leaving messages on Winterbottom's front door and eventually (according to Phoebe) kidnaps her depressed mother.

Showing the parallelism of her life with Phoebe's, Sal lets the story flow from her as she and her grandparents take the trip of their lifetime to find Sal's mother and truly understand what it's like to walk two moons in someone else's moccasins.

How Sharon Creech is able to delve so deeply into a child's psyche is just incredible! In a plot filled with humor, sadness, growth, and ever-evolving love and wisdom, Creech gives us a young 13-year-old girl who, regardless of what she sees, knows there's always more to the story, and, like a curious cat, crouches to the ground and continues to find the truth and reasoning behind all of the chaos and loss. The emotions of Sal and the people around her resonate from each word and grip the reader's heart so tightly that breathing at any point in time isn't an option. I highly recommend this audio for anyone, young or old, who loves to get lost in another world, where the characters are so real that the lessons learned and emotions felt by them are learned just as deeply and felt just as strongly by the readers and listeners, too.

Hope Davis narrates this beautiful tale. An accomplished movie and stage actress, Davis adds a sane softness to the character of Sal and brings out each of the character's quirks just with a slight change of her voice. Remarkable.