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Down the back of the chair

A poor family is searching down the back of a chair for Dad's lost car keys and, miraculously in the mess of things back there, their financial problems are solved.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mahy, Margaret
Other Authors:	Dunbar, Polly (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Clarion Books, 2006.
Edition:	1st American ed.
Subjects:	Chairs > Juvenile fiction. Lost and found possessions > Juvenile fiction. Poor > Juvenile fiction. Stories in rhyme.
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Summary:	A poor family is searching down the back of a chair for Dad's lost car keys and, miraculously in the mess of things back there, their financial problems are solved.
Physical Description:	29 p. : col. col. ; 29 cm.
ISBN:	0618693955 (lib. bdg.)
Author Notes:	Margaret Mahy was born on March 21, 1936 in Whakatane, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. She received a B.A. degree from the University of New Zealand. She worked as a nurse, an assistant librarian, and a children's librarian in England and New Zealand. Her first book, A Lion in the Meadow, was published in 1969. She became a full-time author in 1980. During her lifetime, she wrote more than 120 children's books including The Haunting, The Changeover, Memory, The Seven Chinese Brothers, The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate and A Summery Saturday Morning. She won the Esther Glen Award five times, the Carnegie Medal of the British Library Association three times, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Hans Christian Andersen Award, and in 1999, she won the New Zealand Post Children's Book Award in two categories, Picture Book and Supreme Award. She died after a brief illness on July 23, 2012 at the age of 76. (Bowker Author Biography)