false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1214207022m/2884170.jpg 2884170 2 <div><div><div><div><i>There's<br></i><i>more to me than<br></i><i>most people<br></i><i>see.</i><br><br>Twelve-year-old Willow would rather blend in than stick out. But she still wants to be seen for who she is. She wants her parents to notice that she is growing up. She wants her best friend to like her better than she likes a certain boy. She wants, more than anything, to mush the dogs out to her grandparents' house, by herself, with Roxy in the lead. But sometimes when it's just you, one mistake can have frightening consequences . . . And when Willow stumbles, it takes a surprising group of friends to help her make things right again.<br><br>Using diamond-shaped poems inspired by forms found in polished diamond willow sticks, Helen Frost tells the moving story of Willow and her family. Hidden messages within each diamond carry the reader further, into feelings Willow doesn't reveal even to herself.<br><br></div></div></div></div> 2910398 1 4 2008 Diamond Willow total:204|5:65|4:75|3:50|2:10|1:4| 204 800 301 83 4 3 false false Sun Apr 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 29 14:25:04 -0700 2008 Tue May 06 19:44:38 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Wed Jan 21 16:49:37 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 12:43:28 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Sep 17 04:39:14 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 01 15:40:58 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 1 false true Sat Jan 10 07:09:44 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 07:20:15 -0800 2009
And sure, I didn't care for the diamond-shaped text, which I felt took me out of the story every time I turned a page; and the bolded words that formed the extra message on each page really interfered with tracking the words as I read the regular text; but t...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jan 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 05:44:24 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 14:01:46 -0800 2009 She has never taken the dogs out on her own but believes she can mush them to her grandparent's home 12 miles away. She wants her parents ...more...]]> 5 0 false true Thu Jun 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 09:47:59 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 06:37:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Apr 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 22:30:07 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 22:37:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 09:48:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 12:55:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Dec 06 15:44:20 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 17 09:57:32 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 15 05:01:37 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 05:13:28 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 08:49:41 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 08:58:15 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 16:43:31 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 06:09:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Dec 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 15:31:31 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 15:49:19 -0800 2008
As she did in The Braid, Hel...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Oct 08 08:29:14 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 08:42:13 -0700 2009 I first picked up this book I thought it was a very strange layout. Students love free verse novels but I was concerned that this layout would be difficult for them to follow. But once I started reading the book I realized that your eye just follows the lines automatically and the little hidde...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jan 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 20:52:01 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 22:56:21 -0800 2009 What makes a poem?  At least 50% of the time, I think it comes down to line breaks.  Diamond Willow has plenty of those.  To see a picture of a diamond willow stick (Frost has one on her website) is inspiring, and may put you at ease about the shape of the “poems”—diamond-like, but not diamonds exac...

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This story is told through diamond-shaped poems (diamante?) in connection to the way a diamond willow, when polished is decorated with red "diamonds", each with a dark core as evidence of where the branch broke from the main willow branch.

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