![]() ![]() Lesley recalls her childhood at Derry Farm, where her papa raised chickens and sold their eggs took his family on all-day Sunday picnics and, with his wife, homeschooled the children. He made a reckless choice,” says the teen, quoting the first verse of “The Road Not Taken.” As she waits with her mother and siblings in New York's Grand Central Terminal for the train to New Hampshire, her father visits the publisher of a book of his poetry that his wife saw reviewed in the New Republic. “Papa had the courage to trust his own feelings and know what he had to do. It begins with the family's return home from two years in England, where they had lived so Frost could concentrate on writing poetry instead of farming. Gr 3-5–Bober's picture-book biography is narrated by Frost's oldest daughter, Lesley, and based upon her childhood journal. ![]()
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