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February 20, 2007
THE BRAID by Helen Frost
As you are taught in school, people came to North America for various reasons and both the journey and starting anew was hard. In THE BRAID you meet the MacKinnons, who have just been evicted from the Western Isles of Scotland. Two teenage sisters, Jeannie and Sarah, are separated, when Jeannie joins the family to go to family in Nova Scotia and Sarah stays in Scotland with their grandmother. Both girls are lonely for each other but are connected by a braid of their intertwined hair. The book is told alternately by both girls in prose and poetry. The reader learns of the hardships of migrating from the ocean voyage to finding a home, and the loneliness of losing one's family, when she chooses to stay behind.
This wonderful short book, only 88 pages, introduces to a group of amazing young heroines by Helen Frost, the author of KEESHA'S HOUSE. This book is RECOMMENDED FOR GIRLS IN GRADES 8 TO 10.
Mrs. Jackson
Head of Young Adult Services
Posted by fjacksonem at February 20, 2007 10:14 AM