When Robert Frost was a child, his family thought he would grow up to be a baseball player. Instead, he became a poet. His life on a farm in New Hampshire inspired him to write “poetry that talked,” and today he is famous for his vivid descriptions of the rural life he loved so much.
There was a time when Frost had to struggle to get his poetry published. Told from the point of view of Lesley, Robert Frost’s oldest daughter, this is the story of how a lover of language found his voice.
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“The writing is smooth, and the subject is well-known to Bober, who wrote the young-adult biography A Restless Spirit: The Story of Robert Frost…The most appreciative audience will be readers who love Robert Frost’s poetry. For children unfamiliar with Frost’s work, Bober occasionally uses stanzas and short quotes from his verse within the first-person narrative and includes twelve of his poems in the back matter, along with some historical information, quotations, and a bibliography.”
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