num_pages: 304
description: I could trap my own food and make my own clothes. I could find my way by the stars and make fire in the rain. Pap said he even figured I could whip somebody three times my size. He wasn't worried about me.For as long as ten-year-old Moon can remember, he has lived out in the forest in a shelter with his father. They keep to themselves, their only contact with other human beings an occasional trip to the nearest general store. When Moon's father dies, Moon follows his father's last instructions: to travel to Alaska to find others like themselves. But Moon is soon caught and entangled in a world he doesn't know or understand, apparent property of the government he has been avoiding all his life. 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.In this compelling, action-packed book, Watt Key gives us the thrilling coming-of-age story of the unique and extremely appealing Moon.Alabama Moon is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
language: English
title: Alabama Moon
titlecomplete: Alabama Moon (Alabama Moon, #1)
genres: Juvenile, Fiction, Coming Of Age, Teen, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult, Survival, Middle Grade, Childrens, Adventure
ratings_count: 4861
places: Alabama
series: Alabama Moon
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: E.B. White Read Aloud Award
category: Older Readers, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
category: Kinderbuch, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Truman Readers Award, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Alabama Author Award
category: Young Adult, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)