Diamond Willow by Helen Frost

Diamond Willow by Helen Frost

There's
more to me than
most people
see.

Twelve-year-old Willow would rather blend in than stick out. But she still wants to be seen for who she is. She wants her parents to notice that she is growing up. She wants her best friend to like her better than she likes a certain boy. She wants, more than anything, to mush the dogs out to her grandparents' house, by herself, with Roxy in the lead. But sometimes when it's just you, one mistake can have frightening consequences . . . And when Willow stumbles, it takes a surprising group of friends to help her make things right again.

Using diamond-shaped poems inspired by forms found in polished diamond willow sticks, Helen Frost tells the moving story of Willow and her family. Hidden messages within each diamond carry the reader further, into feelings Willow doesn't reveal even to herself.
Diamond Willow is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Frost, Helen: - 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.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780374317768
ISBN 10	0374317763
Title	Diamond Willow
Author	Helen Frost
Series	Frances Foster Books
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Farrar Straus Giroux
Year published	2008-04-01
Number of pages	111
Prizes	Commended for Texas Lone Star Reading List 2009, Commended for Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens (Ten to Fourteen) 2009, Commended for Cybils (Middle Grade Fiction) 2008, Short-listed for Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award 2011, Short-listed for Georgia Children's Book Award (Children's Book) 2011, Short-listed for North Carolina Children's Book Award (Junior Book) 2010, Short-listed for Iowa Children's Choice (ICCA) Award 2010, Short-listed for Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award 2010, Short-listed for Keystone to Reading Book Award (Intermediate) 2010, Short-listed for Black-Eyed Susan Award (Grades 4-6) 2009
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