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Keesha's House Paperback - 2007

by Helen Frost

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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.

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  • Title Keesha's House
  • Author Helen Frost
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 116
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar Straus Giroux, NY
  • Date 2007-02
  • ISBN 9780374400125 / 0374400121
  • Weight 0.31 lbs (0.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.58 x 5.88 x 0.37 in (19.25 x 14.94 x 0.94 cm)
  • Ages 12 to 18 years
  • Grade levels 7 - 13
  • Library of Congress subjects Poetry, Teenagers
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Helen Frost is the author of several books for young people, including "Hidden," "Diamond Willow," "Crossing Stones," "The Braid," and "Keesha's House," selected an Honor Book for the Michael L. Printz Award. Helen Frost was born in 1949 in South Dakota, the fifth of ten children. She recalls the summer her family moved from South Dakota to Oregon, traveling in a big trailer and camping in places like the Badlands and Yellowstone. Her father told the family stories before they went to sleep, and Helen would dream about their travels, her family, and their old house. "That's how I became a writer," she says. "I didn't know it at the time, but all those things were accumulating somewhere inside me." As a child, she loved to travel, think, swim, sing, learn, canoe, write, argue, sew, play the piano, play softball, play with dolls, daydream, read, go fishing, and climb trees. Now, when she sits down to write, her own experiences become the details of her stories. Helen has lived in South Dakota, Oregon, Massachusetts, New York, Vermont, Scotland, Colorado, Alaska, California, and Indiana. She currently lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana, with her family.
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