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Diamond Willow

In a remote area of Alaska, twelve-year-old Willow helps her father with their sled dogs when she is not at school, wishing she were more popular, all the while unaware that the animals surrounding her carry the spirits of dead ancestors and friends who care for her.

Main Author: Frost, Helen, 1949-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2008.
Edition: 1st ed.
Subjects:
Spirits > Juvenile fiction.
Sled dogs > Juvenile fiction.
Dogs > Juvenile fiction.
Popularity > Juvenile fiction.
Schools > Juvenile fiction.
Athapascan Indians > Juvenile fiction.
Indians of North America > Alaska > Juvenile fiction.
Alaska > Juvenile fiction.
Summary: In a remote area of Alaska, twelve-year-old Willow helps her father with their sled dogs when she is not at school, wishing she were more popular, all the while unaware that the animals surrounding her carry the spirits of dead ancestors and friends who care for her.
Item Description: "Frances Foster books."
Physical Description: viii, 111 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780374317768
0374317763
9780312603830 (pbk)
Author Notes: Author Helen Frost was born in Brookings, South Dakota in 1949. She received a Bachelors degree in Elementary Education with an English concentration from Syracuse University and a Masters degree in English from Indiana University. She has taught writing from pre-school through university and has published poetry, children's books, anthologies, a play, and a book about teaching writing.

Skin of a Fish, Bones of a Bird, a collection of poetry, won the Women Poets Series Competition in 1993. Poems from that collection were awarded the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award and the Mary Carolyn Davies Memorial Award by the Poetry Society of America. She worked with the Fort Wayne YWCA and the Fort Wayne Youtheatre to help high school students write about how they had been affected by violence. This workshop led to a play and an anthology of student writing, both entitled Why Darkness Seems So Light. Keesha's House was awarded a Michael L. Printz Honor from the American Library Association in 2004.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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