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.Īlabama Moon is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. 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. Alabama Moon is a 2009 American coming-of-age film directed by Tim McCanlies and starring Jimmy Bennett and John Goodman, based on the book Alabama Moon by Watt Key. 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. (Sept.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.įor as long as ten-year-old Moon can remember, he has lived out in the forest in a shelter with his father. If Moon emerges as too sociable and articulate a character for someone who has grown up in an isolated environment, he remains likable readers will admire his ability to outwit authority figures. For as long as ten-year-old Moon can remember, he has lived out in the. Besides offering adventure, the book provides a detailed account of lessons Moon's father has taught him on being self-sufficient. 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. Over time, however, Moon begins to question his father's lifestyle and beliefs, especially when his friend Kit takes ill and is in need of medical attention. During a harrowing cat-and-mouse game against mean-spirited Constable Sanders, Moon gets a taste of society, and he even makes friends during his brief stint at a boys' home, where he carries out an escape plan and brings two boys back to the forest with him. After Pap dies, Moon fully intends to carry out his father's wishes by finding his way to Alaska, a place where 'no one would find him' and 'people could still make a living off trapping.' But the authorities want to make Moon a ward of the state.

Abroscotto, the storekeeper in Gainsville who buys their vegetables and sells them provisions.

Raised in a primitive shelter deep in the Alabama woods, Moon Blake knows only two people: Pap, a Vietnam veteran holding a grudge against the government, and Mr. First-time author Key's absorbing survival tale features a 10-year-old hermit, who feels more at home among forest creatures than people.

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