The Braid
by Frost, Helen
SLJ Best BookLee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award/HonorALA Best Book for Young AdultsCanadian ContentScotlandCanadaHistorical FictionSiblings
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AR Book Level
4.6
AR Points
3
Word Count
17,169
Interest Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
110260 EN
About this book
Two sisters, living on the western island of Barra in the 1850s, relate in alternate voices and poems, their experiences after their family is forcibly evicted and separated, with one sister accompanying their parents and the other staying behind.