It's been six years since Row and Ariana lost their mother. Since then their father remarried and there is promised new hope and excitement with the arrival of a baby. When their stepmother loses the baby, grief comes flooding back into their lives.
Row has been dealing with her sadness by playing soccer. When she's on the field, it's like her mother is running beside her. Ariana hasn't been coping as well. Now a senior about to graduate, if she can raise her failing art grade, she doesn't have any idea about what comes next for her. She certainly doesn't feel like an older sister able to advise her younger sibling.
One snowy evening Ariana leaves home and hops on a bus for the city. Row is left behind fretting about Ariana's disappearance. Has she run away? Has she been kidnapped? Why would her one remaining person of importance just take off without a word?
Written in verse and told in the alternating voices of Row and Ariana, TURTLE UNDER ICE tells of the grief felt by two sisters struggling to hold on to the fragile remains of their lives. Author Juleah del Rosario takes readers into the hearts and feelings of Row and Ariana as they deal with love and loss.
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