Portland Public Library

Hidden, Helen Frost

eng

no index present

Young Adult670, Lexile

fiction

Hidden

653834426

Helen Frost

Accelerated Reader, MG, 3.8, 3.0.Reading Counts!, 5.2.

When fourteen-year-olds Wren and Darra meet at a Michigan summer camp, both are overwhelmed by memories from six years earlier when Darra's father stole a car, unaware that Wren was hiding in the backWhen Wren and Darra meet at age fourteen, they recognize each other instantly, though they've never actually seen each other. It has been six years since something happened that affected both of them profoundly: Darra's father stole a car and drove it home, not knowing that Wren was hiding in the back. Darra was the only one who guessed that Wren stayed hidden in their loced garage. For Wren, hungry, thirsty, trapped, and terrified, the hours dragged on as she searched for a way out. Now, in Cabin Eight at Camp Oakwood, each girl knows the other's most private secret--and neither of them wants to talk about what happened. For the most part, they manage avoid each other, until their Lifesaving teacher introduces a game called Drown Last and Wren and Darra meet underwater in an intense encounter that leaves them both gasping for air--and answers--when they surface. Using a different poetic structure for each voice, Helen Frost reveals what is hidden in this poignant multilayered story of friendship and forgiveness. --, From dust jacket

pre adolescent