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The braid
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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 forcible 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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Title
The braid
Call No
39742 A
Edition
First edition.
Authors
Frost, Helen, 1949-
Subjects
Sisters--Fiction.
Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Family--Fiction.
Islands--Fiction.
Cape Breton Island (N.S.)--History--19th century--Fiction.
Mingulay (Scotland)--History--19th century--Fiction.
Scotland--History--19th century--Fiction.
Canada--History--1841-1867--Fiction.
Language
English
Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
Publication Desc
95 pages ;
ISBN
0374309620
LCCN
2005040148
Target Audience
Intermediate (3-5)
Dimensions
24 cm.