Watt key, is an awardwinning southern fiction author. They keep to themselves, their only contact with other human beings an occasional trip to the nearest general store. Auburn resident laura murray was spurred to action and illustrated the book when she was couldnt find an alabama coloring book. Whitepages provides the top free people search and tenant screening tool online with contact information for over 250 million people including cell phone numbers and complete background check data compiled from public records, white pages. Moon knows a lot of survival tips that most kids dont.
Alabama moon alabama moon, book 1 by watt key book cover, description, publication history. Alabama moon is a 2007 bank street best childrens book of the year. Genre the genre of the book alabama moon is realistic fiction. With jimmy bennett, gabriel basso, uriah shelton, clint howard. Alabama moon book final test by esl is my jam teachers pay. The novel was originally published by farrar, straus and giroux in 2006. He grew up and currently lives in southern alabama with his wife and family. Watt key alabama moon watt key adventure books for. In striving to enrich the lives of all readers, teachingbooks supports the first amendment and celebrates the right to read. Following the release of the published work, a movie based upon the book titled alabama moon was released september 27, 2009.
This endof book writing assignment asks students to borrow and cite the best evidence from a passage in watt keys alabama moon in order to support a given thesis. The blue moon revisited a new edition of the cookbook from montgomery alabama s renowned blue moon inn featuring 30 new recipes cookbook cook book published by cecil l. Alabama moon 2006 read online free book by watt key in. Time magazine listed the book as one of its top 100 young adult novels of all time. Essay on alabama moon by watt key 14 words bartleby. As the spirited and resourceful moon encounters constables, jails pdf, 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. He knows how to build a fire without matches and how to make his own bow and arrow out of sticks and sinew. After the death of his father, tenyearold moon leaves their forest shelter home and is sent to an alabama institution, becoming entangled in. Other characters include hal and kit, moon s friends, moon. Alabama moon, written by watt key in 2006, follows the struggles of a boy named moon blake. Alabama moon and millions of other books are available for instant access. This charming board book highlights alabama s greatest. I really enjoyed this book and recommend everybody check it out. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools.
This onepage guide includes a plot summary and brief analysis of alabama moon by watt key. Other characters include hal and kit, moon s friends, moon s dad, mr. Moon grew up surviving in the woods of alabama with his father, and had little contact with the outside world. When moon gets to the boys home, he tries to escape. Pap, a vietnam vet, taught moon how to surviveand how to keep away from the government. 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. In alabama moon, we learned a great deal about survival in the woods. Soon though, a wellmeaning acquaintance turns moon over to the local. This book is a great read that can be appreciated by young and. Hardcover, 304 pages published on september 5, 2006 by farrar, straus and giroux byr. Raised in the wilderness by his vietnan vet father, moon.
The author, watt key, has just the right touch for this kind of book and one is naturally reminded of the tom sawyerhuck finn of forever fame. After the unexpected death of his survivalist father, an elevenyearold boy raised in the alabama wilderness must learn how to make a home in the modern world. Moons father though has died and moons mother was never really around because she passed away when moon. In the novel alabama moon a boy named moon is the main character. I also have quizzes for chapters, 46 and 510, 1118 and 2535 for sale. Alabama moon is a 2009 american comingofage film directed by tim mccanlies and starring jimmy bennett and john goodman, based on the book alabama moon by w.
We provide answers to over 2 million searches every day, helping 35. Alabama moon book chicago public library bibliocommons. Feel free to download them and modify them for use in your classroom. Tenyearold moon blake has been living in the wilds with his father for years. Characters alabama moon the main character of alabama moon is moon. Alaskas a long way from alabama, though, and moon soon finds himself on the run from the law. On his deathbed, pap tells moon that he must flee to alaska to find others like them and continue to live free, without government restrictions. Watt key after the death of his father, tenyearold moon leaves their forest shelter home and is sent to an alabama institution, becoming entangled in the outside world he has never known and making good. Describe the living conditions in these first few chapters. Click download or read online button to get alabama moon book now. All his life, moon blake has lived with his reclusive father, oliver, on a remote tract of land in the woods surviving only on what they trap and grow. But since i cant be in alabama this weekend, i am picking up one of the great books about the state, alabama moon by watt key, published in 2006.
Whitepages provides the top free people search and tenant screening tool online with contact information for over 250 million people including cell phone numbers and complete background check data compiled from public records, white pages and other directories in all 50 states. Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. When he lands in a juvenile detention center, moon. Read alabama moon by watt key for free with a 30 day free trial. This book escaped my notice when it appeared in hard cover. Alabama moon by watt key scholastic books for kids. Book notes learn with flashcards, games, and more for free. Sign the petition to bring alabama moon to a theatre near you. Alabama moon was adapted into a pgrated movie in 2009 with john goodman, clint howard and. Alabama moon is a classic kids film based on the novel by watt key, complete with adventure and survival that most kids only dream about. Moon didnt care about anything anymore and his careleseness got him caught by the police and sent to a all boys home called pinson. To ask other readers questions about alabama moon, please sign up.
This is an update because of a mistake to the answer key. White read aloud award, bank street best childrens book of the year, tn intermed volunt state book. Read unlimited books and audiobooks on the web, ipad, iphone and android. Aug 03, 2010 watt spent much of his childhood hunting and fishing the forests of alabama, which inspired his debut novel, alabama moon, published to national acclaim in 2006. Publishers weekly sep 4, 2006 firsttime author keys absorbing survival tale features a 10yearold hermit, who feels more at home among forest creatures than people. Tenyearold moon has lived in an alabama forest with his pap ever since he can remember. Read alabama moon online by watt key books free 30day trial. For as long as tenyearold moon can remember, he has lived out in the forest in a shelter with his father. Engage your students during remote learning with video readalouds. Then you can start reading kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer no kindle device required. When he lands in a juvenile detention center, moon discovers that with the loss of his freedom, he gains good food and the first friends. Alabama moon is a good book that teaches you a lot of things that could help if you had to survive in the forest. Who are the main characters in the book alabama moon.
Moon has been watching his pap how to do things since he could understand what was going on. It is vitally important that all alabama citizens participate in the 2020 census to maintain congressional representation, improve roads and bridges, health care and so much more. Keep kids busy, learning with free coloring book pages from. Instead, moon is taken and placed in a boys home where he loves having. Alabama moon is a debut novel published in 2006 by american author watt key. It all changed after his pap died from a infected broken leg. Indiana young hoosier award master list, alabama childrens choice book award master list, abc e. Jul 05, 2015 i really enjoyed this book and recommend everybody check it out. After the unexpected death of his survivalist father, an elevenyearold boy raised in the alabama. Directed by tim mccanlies secondhand lions, alabama moon is bighearted and sweet and likable, but it also feels rushed and truncated, as well as uneven in tone. Alabama moon is a book that should make any young boy who loves adventure and the outdoors drop his video game controller and lose himself in moon s escapades. Following the release of the published work, a movie based upon the book titled alabama moon was released september. Jan 04, 2004 alabama moon is a good book that teaches you a lot of things that could help if you had to survive in the forest. Alabama moon is a wonderful adventure into the life of moon blake, a young man with an unorthodox upbringing.
The story follows the adventures of alabama native moon blake. Raised in a primitive shelter deep in the alabama woods, moon blake knows only two people. Moon is very independent because throughout the story he does a lot of things on his own including living alone. Moon blake is raised by his loving but governmentparanoid father oliver in a hidden cave in the alabama forests. He escapes with the boys from the boys home and two of the boys went in the woods with moon and the rest stayed back. Before dying, oliver instructs moon to go to alaska where hell find people just like them. Jan 14, 2008 tenyearold moon has lived in an alabama forest with his pap ever since he can remember. Dirt road home is a fine sequel to alabama moon,the well written coming of age story which has received much praise. White readaloud award and has been translated in seven languages. Search our online phone book to find phone numbers, addresses, and more. 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 alabama moon the main character is moon blake he is 10 years old and has lived in the wild with his pap his whole life.
Watt key after the death of his father, tenyearold moon leaves their forest shelter home and is sent to an alabama institution, becoming. Whitepages provides the top free people search and tenant screening tool online with contact information for over 250 million people including cell phone numbers and complete background check data. This is a series of questions to test students after reading the book alabama moon by watt key it included multiple choice, short answer, and an essay. Every page features cultural and historical sites from all 67 alabama counties, with easytoread text. The book, set in 1980, follows moon s struggles as he is forced to choose between continuing a. Alabama moon download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi.
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