Crossing Stones Contributor(s): Frost, Helen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374316538 ISBN-13: 9780374316532 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr) OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2009 Annotation: Written in beautifully structured verse, "Crossing Stones" captures nine months in the lives of two resilient families struggling to stay together and cross carefully, stone by stone, into a changing world. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Historical - United States - 20th Century - Young Adult Fiction | Girls & Women - Young Adult Fiction | Novels In Verse |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2008020755 |
Lexile Measure: 820 |
Series: Frances Foster Books |
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.8" W x 9.38" (0.99 lbs) 192 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 134204 Reading Level: 5.3 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 4.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Maybe you won't rock a cradle, Muriel. |
Contributor Bio(s): 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. |