Publication
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) (2006), Edition: 1st, 112 pages
Description
Two Scottish sisters, living on the western island of Barra in the 1850s, relate, in alternate voices and linked narrative poems, their experiences after their family is forcibly evicted and separated with one sister accompanying their parents and younger siblings to Cape Breton, Canada, and the other staying behind with other family on the small island of Mingulay.
Subjects
Awards
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — Young Adult — 2009)
Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award (Honor — 2007)
Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry (Honor Book — 2007)
Best Fiction for Young Adults (Selection — 2007)
CCBC Choices (2007)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2006
Pages
112
Physical description
112 p.; 8.98 inches
ISBN
0374309620 / 9780374309626
DDC/MDS
| 813.6 |