- Families, Family problems, Teenagers, Poetry
Seven teens facing such problems as pregnancy, closeted homosexuality, and abuse each describe in poetic forms what caused them to leave home and where they found home again.
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Contemporary, grave, earnest and spare.
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Helen Frost
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 145
- Publisher
- Raincoast, Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780312641276
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