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95 pp.
| Farrar/Foster |
October, 2006 |
TradeISBN 0-374-30962-0$16.00
(2)
YA
After the nineteenth-century Highland Clearances leave her homeless, fifteen-year-old Sarah flees to relatives in the Outer Hebrides while her family (including younger sister Jeannie) sails from Scotland to Canada for a new start. The sisters' alternating verse narratives are braided together in a delicate, intricate system of repetition. Historical events are authentic and poignant, the sisters courageous and well realized. Author's note.
Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 2006