Book Review: THE BRAID by Helen Frost
October 6, 2007
In the 1850s, two teenage sisters are separated when one stays behind on a small Scottish island with her grandmother and the rest of the family emigrates to Canada. Their alternating stories are told in narrative poems which are intricately woven together. A note at the end describes the construction of the poems; however, the construction can be ignored and the story enjoyed for its own sake. For middle and high schoolers.