Alabama Moon

Name: Alabama Moon
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Author: Watt Key
ISBN: 9781449803759

Author: Watt Key

Series: Alabama Moon #1

Narrator: Nick Landrum

Unabridged: 8 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/14/2008

Categories: Children's Fiction, Action & Adventure Stories

Synopsis

In this compelling, action-packed book, Watt Key gives us the thrilling coming-of-age story of the unique and extremely appealing Alabama Moon, the basis for the film of the same name starring Jimmy Bennett and John Goodman. 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; he's become 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. Alabama Moon is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. “Excellent. A terrific choice for reluctant readers.”—Booklist, Starred Review

About Watt Key

Watt Key lives in southern Alabama with his family. His debut novel, Alabama Moon, was named to Time magazine's list of the Best One Hundred YA Books of All Time.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Deborah on February 23, 2015

This is one of several reviews I wrote for the late lamented Secular Homeschooling Magazine. We ran an article about homeschoolers in fiction, and I rated a lot of YA novels based on how good they were and how well they handled homeschooling. Mostly, homeschoolers were hauled out as the reliable wei......more

Goodreads review by Sharon on April 21, 2020

Moon lived in Talledega Forest with his dad in an underground type of box that gave them shelter. His dad taught him survival skills, which he used every day. His dad told him that he should go to Alaska, because there were people there that were just like themselves that hated the government. After......more

Goodreads review by Nathan on February 14, 2017

Afraid of the government and wanting to go to Alaska that is thousands of miles away. only having some food a rifle and a wheelbarrow. you get caught a few times and are in jail. this is what happened to the protagonist in the story Alabama moon. I highly recommend this book to readers that like adv......more

Goodreads review by Dalton on February 12, 2013

It was surprising to me, how even though the overal subject seemed just okay, it's really when you get down and read that the little details suck you in and make you keep reading. He really makes your feelings for Moon twist and turn between "tough guy" and helpless ten year-old. In the beginning, "......more

Goodreads review by Aj on July 26, 2020

Alabama Moon made me laugh. The main character, Moon, thinks he can solve all of life’s problems by punching annoying people. I believe Twitter would call that #mood. If you love books like Hatchet, you’ll enjoy Alabama Moon. It’s an easy middlegrade read with tons of action. Moon has spent his enti......more