Plain and simple. This is the way the book is written, and this describes Moon’s life.
Goodreads summary:
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.Â
I enjoyed this book because it fascinates me when people choose to live so differently from the norm. Moon’s mother and father had fled to make a home in the woods to get away from the government. How many of us would choose that kind of life if we thought we could survive or get away with it?
4 of 5 stars
I think most of my 6th graders would enjoy this book with it’s unique yet simple storyline, but I really think my boys would enjoy it.
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