Laundry day

In turn-of-the-twentieth-century New York City, a shoeshine boy tries to find the owner of a piece of red cloth, venturing up and down fire escapes, back and forth across clotheslines, and into the company of the diverse people who live in the tenement buildings.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Manning, Maurie
Format: Books Print Book Comic & Graphic Novel
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
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Summary:In turn-of-the-twentieth-century New York City, a shoeshine boy tries to find the owner of a piece of red cloth, venturing up and down fire escapes, back and forth across clotheslines, and into the company of the diverse people who live in the tenement buildings.
Physical Description:1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
ISBN:9780547241968
0547241968
Author Notes:Maurie J. Manning's inspiration for this book is her own large family, which emigrated from various countries via Ellis Island in the early 1900s. The illustrator of numerous children's books, she lives in Berkeley, California. Visit her website at www.mauriejmanning.com .