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The braid
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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 separa...
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.
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- Creator
- Helen Frost
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
- Physical Details
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- 95 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0374309620, 9780374309626
- OCLC
- ocm60500453
- "Frances Foster books."
Subjects
- Sisters -- Juvenile fiction.
- Families -- Juvenile fiction.
- Islands -- Juvenile fiction.
- Mingulay (Scotland) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction.
- Emigration and immigration -- Juvenile fiction.
- Cape Breton Island (N.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction.
- Scotland -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction.
- Canada -- History -- 1841-1867 -- Juvenile fiction.
- Sisters -- Fiction.
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- Families -- Fiction.
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- Islands -- Fiction.
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- Mingulay (Scotland) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.
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- Cape Breton Island (N.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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- Scotland -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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- Canada -- History -- 1841-1867 -- Fiction.
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