Keesha's House

Keesha's House
By:Helen Frost
Published on 2016-09-06 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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.

This Book was ranked at 31 by Google Books for keyword kids.

Book ID of Keesha's House's Books is OxexDAAAQBAJ, Book which was written byHelen Frosthave ETAG "EoVEdxVL7q8"

Book which was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) since 2016-09-06 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9781466896321 and ISBN 10 Code is 1466896329

Reading Mode in Text Status is true and Reading Mode in Image Status is false

Book which have "144 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryYoung Adult Fiction

This Book was rated by 10 Raters and have average rate at "4.0"

This eBook Maturity (Adult Book) status is NOT_MATURE

Book was written in en

eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is true

Book Preview