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The quilt walk

Ten-year-old Emmy Blue learns the true meaning of friendship--and how to quilt--while making a harrowing wagon journey from Illinois to Colorado with her family in the 1860s.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dallas, Sandra
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ann Arbor, MI : Sleeping Bear Press, c2012.
Subjects:	Wagon trains > Juvenile fiction. Frontier and pioneer life > Juvenile fiction. Quilting > Juvenile fiction. Friendship > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:	Ten-year-old Emmy Blue learns the true meaning of friendship--and how to quilt--while making a harrowing wagon journey from Illinois to Colorado with her family in the 1860s.
Item Description:	"Based on a story in The quilt that walked to Golden"--Copyright p.
Physical Description:	213 p. ; 21 cm.
Audience:	Ages 9 up.
ISBN:	9781585368006 (hard cover) 1585368008 (hard cover) 9781585367993 (soft cover) 1585367990 (soft cover)
Author Notes:	Sandra Dallas graduated from the University of Denver with a degree in journalism and began her writing career as a reporter with Business Week. While a reporter, she began writing nonfiction which include Sacred Paint, which won the National Cowboy Hall of Fame Western Heritage Wrangler Award, and The Quilt That Walked to Golden, recipient of the Independent Publishers Association Benjamin Franklin Award. Turning to fiction in 1990, Sandra has published a number of novels including Buster Midnight's Cafe, Alice's Tulips, and Prayers For Sale. She is the recipient of the Women Writing the West Willa Award for New Mercies, and two-time winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award, for The Chili Queen and Tallgrass. In addition, she was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award, the Mountain and Plains Booksellers Association Award, and a four-time finalist for the Women Writing the West Willa Award. (Bowker Author Biography)