In Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech, Salamanca Tree Hiddle is just recuperating after her mother’s disappearance and moving to a new state. During the first week attending a new school, Sal scoops up a “dignified black spider” and carries it to the window ledge, causing others to act like she had “single-handedly taken on a fire-breathing dragon.” Later, Sal realizes that “if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.” The most apparent point is of Sal’s ‘not there’ fear. Even though Sal might be scared out of her wits and trembling with fear, Sal is going to pull herself together and behave like there is no such thing as fear, at least that’s what everybody thinks.