Alabama Moon, English edition - Nominated for the Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis 2009, category Kinderbuch

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.

This title has Common Core connections.

Alabama Moon is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

About the author

Albert Watkins Key, Jr., publishing under the name Watt Key, is an award-winning southern fiction author. He grew up and currently lives in southern Alabama with his wife and family. 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. Alabama Moon won the 2007 E.B. White Read-Aloud Award and has been translated in seven languages. Key's second novel, Dirt Road Home, was published in 2010.

Product details

• Authors: Watt Key, Key Watt
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 10 to 14
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.09.2008
• EAN: 9780312384289
• ISBN: 978-0-312-38428-9
• No. of pages: 298
• Weight: 228 g
• Series: Alabama Moon; Alabama Moon
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; Children's and young people's books > Young people's books from 12 years of age; Kinder/Jugendliche: Familienromane, Kinder/Jugendliche: Action- und Abenteuergeschichten, Kinder/Jugendliche: Persönliche und soziale Themen: Mobbing, Gewalt, Missbrauch und Gruppenzwang, young adult fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Bullying, JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / Survival Stories, JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Orphans & Foster Homes