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.
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. "The Braid" is a 2007 Bank Street - Best
Children's Book of the Year.
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