Diamond Willow

Frost, Helen

ISBN 10: 0374317763 / ISBN 13: 9780374317768

Published by U.S.A.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2008

About this Item

A fine hardcover copy in a fine jacket/brodart covered. First Edition. SIGNED/INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. A very nice, clean, tight, and bright copy in like new condition. *** WE BOX AND SHIP ALL BOOKS WITH USPS TRACKING. *** WE HAVE BEEN BUYING AND SELLING USED BOOKS FOR OVER 36 YEARS.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Diamond Willow
• Publisher: U.S.A.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374317763
• ISBN 13: 9780374317768
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Childrens

About this title

Synopsis

In a remote area of Alaska, twelve-year-old Willow helps her father with their sled dogs when she is not at school, all the while unaware that the animals surrounding her carry the spirits of dead ancestors and friends who care for her. 10,000 first printing.

About the Author

Helen Frost is the author of several books for young people, including Hidden, Crossing Stones, The Braid, and Keesha's House, selected an Honor Book for the Michael L. Printz Award. Helen Frost was born in Brookings, South Dakota, the fifth of ten children. She recalls the summer her family moved from South Dakota to Oregon, traveling in a big trailer and camping in places like the Badlands and Yellowstone. Her father told the family stories before they went to sleep, and Helen would dream about their travels, her family, and their old house. "That's how I became a writer," she says. "I didn't know it at the time, but all those things were accumulating somewhere inside me."

As a child, she loved to travel, think, swim, sing, learn, canoe, write, argue, sew, play the piano, play softball, play with dolls, daydream, read, go fishing, and climb trees. Now, when she sits down to write, her own experiences become the details of her stories. Helen has lived in South Dakota, Oregon, Massachusetts, New York, Vermont, Scotland, Colorado, Alaska, California, and Indiana. She currently lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana, with her family.