(Image credit: www.powells.com)Frost, Helen. Keesha's House. Waterville, Maine: Thorndike Press, 2005.
Seven teens on the run find shelter at Keesha's house.
The stories are nothin' new: Stephie and Jason get pregnant, Dontay runs from foster care, Carmen is in for DUI, Harris's father can't accept he's gay, and Katie's mother can't see her abusive stepfather for the piece of crap he is.
The stories are nothin' new, but this time they have a place to go...Keesha's house. The house actually belongs to Joe, and while he is the heart it, Keesha is the heart and soul of this house.
It used to be when kids showed up they'd say,
I'm lookin' for Joe's house. Somebody sent me
here
and said to ask you for a place to stay
tonight. They'd stay a week, a month,
a year...
It's still like that, 'cept now they look at
me
like, where'd you come from? Ain't this
Keesha's house?
This story is told in the first person using a hybrid of traditional and non-traditional sestinas and sonnets. Some of the seven teenagers will find their way back home and some of the seven will make their home in a house that's both beautiful and durable- Keesha's house.
Michael L. Printz Honor Book. YALSA Best Books for Young Adults. YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, What Makes a Family?
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