Keesha's House - Paperback
by Helen Frost
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Helen FrostAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2013-01-08Pages:144
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Square FishISBN-13:9780312641276ISBN-10:312641273UPC:9780312641276Book Category:Young Adult FictionBook Subcategory:Social Themes, Novels in VerseBook Topic:Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, RunawaysSize:8.21 x 5.59 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.29Product ID:SCG8KT4K8N
An unforgettable narrative collage told in poems
Keesha has found a safe place to live, and other kids gravitate to her house when they just can't make it on their own. They are Stephie - pregnant, trying to make the right decisions for herself and those she cares about; Jason - Stephie's boyfriend, torn between his responsibility to Stephie and the baby and the promise of a college basketball career; Dontay - in foster care while his parents are in prison, feeling unwanted both inside and outside the system; Carmen - arrested on a DUI charge, waiting in a juvenile detention center for a judge to hear her case; Harris - disowned by his father after disclosing that he's gay, living in his car, and taking care of himself; Katie - angry at her mother's loyalty to an abusive stepfather, losing herself in long hours of work and school. Stretching the boundaries of traditional poetic forms - sestinas and sonnets - Helen Frost's extraordinary debut novel for young adults weaves together the stories of these seven teenagers as they courageously struggle to hold their lives together and overcome their difficulties. Keesha's House is a 2004 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.Languages:EnglishPublisher:Square FishISBN-13:9780312641276ISBN-10:312641273UPC:9780312641276Book Category:Young Adult FictionBook Subcategory:Social Themes, Novels in VerseBook Topic:Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, RunawaysSize:8.21 x 5.59 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.29Product ID:SCG8KT4K8N
HELEN FROST is the author of many award-winning books for children and young adults, including Diamond Willow, winner of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Award, The Braid, Crossing Stones, and Hidden, available from FSG in May 2011. She is the recipient of a 2009-2010 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. She lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
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