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Free Verse

by Sarah Dooley

Ages: 12+

Published: 2016

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons/Penguin Random House/PRH

ISBN: 978-0-399-16503-0

Keywords: Socio-economic status, Loss, Death, Foster children, Foster care

When seventh-grader Sasha enters foster care in her West Virginia mining town, poetry helps her reexamine the meaning of family and home.