The braid
By: Helen Frost.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 95
Subjects: Sisters -- Juvenile fiction; Family -- Juvenile fiction; Islands -- Juvenile fiction; Emigration and immigration -- Juvenile fiction; Mingulay (Scotland) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction; Cape Breton Island (N.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction; Scotland -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction; Canada -- History -- 1841-1867 -- Juvenile fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction
Description: 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 forcible 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. 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.
Notes: "Frances Foster books."

730  Lexile.

Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.6 3.0 110260.