Crossing Stones Contributor(s): Frost, Helen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374316538 ISBN-13: 9780374316532 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions 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. Click for more in this series: Frances Foster Books |
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 |
Age Level: 12-17 |
Grade Level: 7-12 |
Lexile Measure: 820(Not Available) |
Series: Frances Foster Books |
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.8" W x 9.38" L (0.99 lbs) 192 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 |
Features: Dust Cover, Ikids, Price on Product, Table of Contents |
Awards: Young Hoosier Book Award, Nominee, Middle Grades, 2012 Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens, Recommended, Fourteen and Up, 2010 |
Review Citations: Kirkus Review - Children 09/15/2009 Voice of Youth Advocates 10/01/2009 pg. 314 - Recommended - Better Than Most School Library Journal 10/01/2009 pg. 126 Booklist 10/01/2009 pg. 42 Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2009 pg. 671 Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 12/01/2009 Kirkus Best Young-Adult Books 12/01/2009 pg. 5 Booklist Ed Choice Youth 01/01/2010 pg. 11 ALA Best Books Young Adults 03/01/2010 pg. 14 Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2010 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style |
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. |
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