5/22/2023 0 Comments Hidden by helen frost summary![]() ![]() Keesha’s also concerned Tobias will get in trouble with his mischievous friends. Keesha worries about leaving her little brother, Tobias, behind with their unstable father. Keesha knows she has to depend on herself, especially when she becomes so upset about her difficult life that she leaves home. Her mother has recently died, and her father is a verbally abusive alcoholic who is unable to properly parent. ![]() The novel also won several awards, including the 2004 Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year, the 2004 Printz Honor Award, and the 2005 YALSA’s “Selected Videos, DVDs, and Audiobooks for Young Adults.” In an unspecified time and place, Keesha Walker is a high-school teenager who has a troubled home life. Keesha’s House has been called “impressive” by Kirkus Reviews, “spare, elegant, and eloquently concise” by Voya, and “personal, poetic, and immediate” by Booklist. As the teens meet up and start to share their personal hardships with one another, a therapeutic bond is formed among many of them, which allows for hope, help, and ultimately, healing. Chapters alternate between the first-person perspectives of each character, with only two segments of the book told from the view of adults. Told entirely in free verse sonnets and sestinas from various characters, the story follows six teenagers who convene at a girl named Keesha’s house in search of refuge from their troubled lives. ![]() Keesha’s House is the debut 2003 young-adult verse novel written by American author Helen Frost. ![]()
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