Dirt Road Home (Alabama Moon Series #2)

After his recapture at the end of Alabama Moon, gutsy fourteen-year-old Hal Mitchell is sentenced to live at Hellenweiler, an institution that is more like a jail than the boys’ home it’s supposed to be. Hal could walk out in just a few months if he keeps out of trouble. But in a place like Hellenweiler, the more he tries to avoid the gangs and their violence, the harder Hal’s fellow inmates try to make him fail.

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Dirt Road Home (Alabama Moon Series #2)

After his recapture at the end of Alabama Moon, gutsy fourteen-year-old Hal Mitchell is sentenced to live at Hellenweiler, an institution that is more like a jail than the boys’ home it’s supposed to be. Hal could walk out in just a few months if he keeps out of trouble. But in a place like Hellenweiler, the more he tries to avoid the gangs and their violence, the harder Hal’s fellow inmates try to make him fail.

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Dirt Road Home (Alabama Moon Series #2)

Dirt Road Home (Alabama Moon Series #2)

by Watt Key
Dirt Road Home (Alabama Moon Series #2)

Dirt Road Home (Alabama Moon Series #2)

by Watt Key

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Overview

After his recapture at the end of Alabama Moon, gutsy fourteen-year-old Hal Mitchell is sentenced to live at Hellenweiler, an institution that is more like a jail than the boys’ home it’s supposed to be. Hal could walk out in just a few months if he keeps out of trouble. But in a place like Hellenweiler, the more he tries to avoid the gangs and their violence, the harder Hal’s fellow inmates try to make him fail.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780312674359
Publisher: Square Fish
Publication date: 12/06/2011
Series: Alabama Moon Series , #2
Pages: 240
Sales rank: 49,597
Product dimensions: 5.22(w) x 7.68(h) x 0.66(d)
Lexile: HL540L (what's this?)
Age Range: 10 - 14 Years

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.

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Discussion Questions

1. Do you think Hal deserves to be at the Hellenweiler Boys’ Home? Why?

2. Do you agree with Hal’s choice to stay unassociated with the Ministers

and the Hounds? Is this a good decision? Why? If you were Hal, would

you make the same decision?

3. Who do you think is a better leader, Paco or Jack? Who do you think is

stronger? Why?

4. Why do both gangs leave Caboose alone? Why does Caboose never say

anything?

5. How did Hal’s experiences with Moon Blake change Hal’s personality?

6. Why do the boys at Hellenweiler lie about how they got there?

7. Why did Paco take a beating from Jack? What was he trying to achieve?

8. How was Paco different before he came to Hellenweiler? Why did he

change?

9. Have you ever gotten in trouble with the law? Did the experience change

you?

10. Did you like the ending of the book? Do you think that Caboose will still

seek revenge from the guards?

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