Evaluation of Walk Two Moons

In the end, I really enjoyed this book! Walk Two Moons is a contemporary book written about a girl named Salamanca, often called Sal, who is having a hard time accepting the fact that her mom is gone, and isn’t returning. Throughout the book she meets a friend, Phoebe, who is an interesting yet determined girl. And most of the time, they get a long really well. Later in the book these two friends find that they have a lot in common after all, and it helps them cope with each other’s issues when they come up. I would say that young adults, teens, would probably enjoy this book better than an elementary student would, even though it is written in a way that a child could read it. This book contains a good amount of life lessons that a young child most likely wouldn’t catch or simply wouldn’t understand. That’s why I loved this book so much, I could relate to a lot of it, and it required me to do some thinking as I read on. Overall, this book was a wonderful piece of work. Starting the book was difficult for me but as I read on, I was sucked in.




At the very start of this book Salamanca is taking a road trip with her grandparents to all the places Sugar, Slamanaca’s mother, visited and where she now rests. During this road trip Sal tells that story of her best friend, Phoebe Winterbottom, whose mother, like Sal's, unexpectedly decides to leave home. Sal meets Phoebe when she and her father move from Bybanks, Kentucky, to Euclid, Ohio. Phoebe is a very interesting girl with a lot of surprises throughout the book. She is very high strung, and antsy. She believes that Mrs. Cadaver, a woman who Sal’s father befriended, has many links to odd situations such as the strange, crazy, lunatic who they once saw and the mysterious notes that keep appearing on her front door. Soon, Sal becomes caught up in Phoebe’s melodramatic life.



When one day Phoebe’s mother disappears and leaves and doesn’t give much of an explanation, Sal is reminded of her own mother and it gets her thinking. As a few days go by, Phoebe’s family is still convinced that she will return. When weeks go by the family begins to get upset and they start to worry. Things start to happen as questions become answered and these answers all come together to form one big solution and answer it all. Sal and her father end up going back to Bybanks, Kentucky to rebuild their life without her mother.



In evaluation, this book is a phenomenal story. It is written in such a way the keeps you reading without being able to stop. As you read you get little pieces of what happened to Sal’s mom but you never know where she went until you reach the end. I loved this book because it was intriguing and kept me wondering what would happen next. Each character was described in a way that I could vividly picture each character and I knew what they were like. I didn’t have to guess what kind of person they were. From the minute I met Phoebe I knew what she was like and what the book might have in store for me with her. As I read on, this book because easier for me to get through because towards the middle, I was finding myself relating simple principles to myself and my life in ways that I hadn’t thought of before.



I would definitely recommend this book to anyone. This isn’t one of the books where only a few people will enjoy it, I know for a fact that there everyone who decided to open this book and read it would find, in one way or another, a relationship to their own lives and that’s why I took so much pleasure in this simple, yet deep story.

Field Trip!

For my field trip for science, I went to the Farmington Bay Nature Center, which is a huge wetland full of wildlife such as birds, frogs, worms, and other animals that you find in the wetlands. This site covers a large portion of land that is used just for those particular animals and their habitat. It is the ancients of Lake Bonneville that once covered Utah. Some of its natural resources are The Great Salt Lake, which used to cover about fifteen thousand square miles. It is known to the world for its heavy salt content, illuminating sunsets, and beautiful mountain vistas. The lake makes a big difference, and is not understood as mightily as it should be, along the Wasatch Front area. The Lake keeps Wasatch populated with life and other fascinating creatures.


Seventy Five percent of the wetlands in Utah are located across the shores of the Great Salt Lake. These wetlands store seasonal floodwaters, purify polluted runoff water, stabilize shorelines, and nurture a multitude of plant and animal species. The Wetlands surrounding the lake are largely populated with a vast majority of birds and constitute the most significant migratory birds in the whole western hemisphere. Two million to three million birds make a stop at the Great Salt Lake in their journeys.

Life in Utah would be significantly different if it weren’t for the Great Salt Lake and its way of giving life. Yet, with every year, a unique resource becomes increasingly under threat. The whole point of the Farmington Bay Nature Center is to make people aware of the threats of the ecosystem, and let people take advantage of them while they are still here in this area. We all need to learn to appreciate the environment we live in and realize its importance.

History itself

Last night I spent the night up at my grandparents house in Park City and some really cool things came to me while I was there. When I got up there I noticed a brochure thing on their counter and I asked what it was for. It was a family History thing that they went to the night before and he briefly told me about it. It was just about people who have been taken away from their families or people who just simply don't know anything about their history or ancestors so they go out of their way to find something about where they came from and the people before them. And he spent like an hour just telling me about these amazing stories about people from halfway across the world finding their parents or siblings they didn't even know about. And then he talked about the last story that someone talked on, and it was about someone finding out that they were related to someone who was a big part of the civil war. And then that started a whole new conversation about history. Me and my grandparents are history freaks. I absolutely adore learning about history and the events and victories that have led up to my time. My grandpa said that as he's gotten older he's become so much more knowledgeable of world history. And that it's not just dates and events anymore, it's the things that have led up to those events and the real things that happened on those days and knowing these things has made him appreciate history so much more and look at our world in such a different perspective. My grandparents have traveled all aroudn Europe and they went down by the phillipeans and just about everywhere else. But they don't just go down there to enjoy being in a different country, they do it to look at the history behind that country and the monuments that aren't talked of but that are big parts in the role of that country and even the world.
This all got me thinking, being in junior high we take history and geography and Utah studies and classes like that, but no one really retains any of the stuff we learn. History is such a big deal because if you don't know your history, how're your kids going to know, and their kids etc.. There are people in our world who are denying history and if we don't continue to spread the word, how're we going to be able to go against those people who decide to deny the background of our world? History is so cool, and it's something we all need to have a good knowledge of because somewhere down the line, someone's paid the price.

History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.

-Max Beerbohm