Instead, Moon ends up in a warm, safe home with a loving family, and learns the difficult lesson that you can love and honor someone and still not agree with him – even if he's your father.Ĭonclusion: The "Little House" books will seem kind of creepy for about a week after you finish reading this. Fortunately, he doesn't succeed, though the reader becomes increasingly sympathetic with his wish to. The fact that Moon is only ten when his father dies doesn't stop him from trying to follow this injunction. Just before he dies, Moon's father advises Moon to leave Alabama and go to Alaska to seek others of their kind – people who know how to live off the land and refuse to have any relationship with the government. Summary: Occasional trips into town for supplies are the only times Moon gets to see anyone other than his father, or glimpse the world outside their tiny hidden home.
Mostly, homeschoolers were hauled out as the reliable weirdos in story after story but it was still fun to do so much reading and call it my job.Ĭategory: Creepy backwoods illegal homeschooling
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. This is one of several reviews I wrote for the late lamented Secular Homeschooling Magazine. In this compelling, action-packed book, Watt Key gives us the thrilling coming-of-age story of the unique and extremely appealing Moon.Īlabama Moon is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. 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. 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. When Moon's father dies, Moon follows his father's last instructions: to travel to Alaska to find others like themselves. They keep to themselves, their only contact with other human beings an occasional trip to the nearest general store. He wasn't worried about me.įor as long as ten-year-old Moon can remember, he has lived out in the forest in a shelter with his father.
Pap said he even figured I could whip somebody three times my size. I could find my way by the stars and make fire in the rain. I could trap my own food and make my own clothes.
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