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Gr 5-8 When a diamond willow's bark is removed, sanded, and polished, it reveals reddish brown diamonds, the dark center of which are the scars of missing branches. Frost has used this image to craft an intricate family story in diamond-shaped verse. In her small Alaskan town, 12-year-old Diamond Willow, named for the tree, prefers to be just "Willow" but muses that if her parents had called her "Diamond," "]would I have been one of those sparkly kinds of girls?" Instead she describes herself as an average, part-Athabascan girl with on...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Willow has lived all her life in interior Alaska, and at twelve feels she is old enough to mush the family sled dogs twelve miles to her grandparents' house on her own. But an accident on the way home leaves her favorite dog, Roxy, blind, and when Willow comes across a note written by her mother ("Vet—3:45. Bring blanket to wrap body. Tell the children? Okay, if old enough to understa...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

After an accident leaves her favorite sled dog, Roxy, blind, twelve-year-old Willow must transport Roxy to her grandparents for safe...Log In or Sign Up to Read More