The Braid - by Helen Frost (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Two Scottish sisters, living on the western island of Barra in the 1850s, relate, in alternate voices and linked narrative poems, their experiences after their family is forcibly evicted and separated with one sister accompanying their parents and younger siblings to Cape Breton, Canada, and the other staying behind with other family on the small island of Mingulay.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Two sisters, Jeannie and Sarah, tell their separate yet tightly interwoven stories in alternating narrative poems. Each sister - Jeannie, who leaves Scotland during the Highland Clearances with her father, mother, and the younger children, and Sarah, who hides so she can stay behind with her grandmother - carries a length of the other's hair braided with her own. The braid binds them together when they are worlds apart and reminds them of who they used to be before they were evicted from the Western Isles, where their family had lived for many generations. <p/>The award-winning poet Helen Frost eloquently twists strand over strand of language, braiding the words at the edges of the poems to bring new poetic forms to life while intertwining the destinies of two young girls and the people who cross their paths in this unforgettable novel. An author's note describes the inventive poetic form in detail. <p/><i>The Braid</i> is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Helen Frost</b> is the author of several books for young people, including <i>Hidden</i>, <i>Diamond Willow</i>, <i>Salt</i>, <i>Crossing Stones</i>, <i>Room 214: A Year in Poems</i>, and <i>Keesha's House</i>, which was a Michael L. Printz Honor Book.
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