Keesha's House
  • Published:
    2004
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    144
  • Age Level:
    12-17
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An unforgettable narrative collage told in poems

Keesha has found a safe place to live, and other kids gravitate to her house when they just can't make it on their own. They are Stephie -- pregnant, trying to make the right decisions for herself and those she cares about; Jason -- Stephie's boyfriend, torn between his responsibility to Stephie and the baby and the promise of a college basketball career; Dontay -- in foster care while his parents are in prison, feeling unwanted both inside and outside the system; Carmen -- arrested on a DUI charge, waiting in a juvenile detention center for a judge to hear her case; Harris -- disowned by his father after disclosing that he's gay, living in his car, and taking care of himself; Katie -- angry at her mother's loyalty to an abusive stepfather, losing herself in long hours of work and school.

Stretching the boundaries of traditional poetic forms -- sestinas and sonnets -- Helen Frost's extraordinary debut novel for young adults weaves together the stories of these seven teenagers as they courageously struggle to hold their lives together and overcome their difficulties.
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EDITIONS
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    • First Edition
    • Jan-2013
    • Square Fish
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0312641273
    • ISBN13: 9780312641276
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    • Feb-2007
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0374400121
    • ISBN13: 9780374400125
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    • Apr-2003
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0374340641
    • ISBN13: 9780374340643
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    • Sep-2016
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
    • eBook (Kindle)
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    • Nov-2004
    • Recorded Books
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 1402599307
    • ISBN13: 9781402599309
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    • Jul-2005
    • Thorndike Press
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0786276975
    • ISBN13: 9780786276974
    • Large Print



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