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Minna's patchwork coat

In the poverty of the Appalachian coal country in 1908, eight-year-old Minna's life gets even more difficult after her father dies of black lung, and that winter she cannot go to school because she does not have a coat--until the quilting mothers make her a coat using pieces of cloth from their own...

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Main Author: Mills, Lauren A. (Author, Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Children of coal miners > West Virginia > Juvenile fiction.
Coats > Juvenile fiction.
Quilting > Juvenile fiction.
Poor families > West Virginia > History > Juvenile fiction.
Community life > West Virginia > History > Juvenile fiction.
Elementary schools > West Virginia > Juvenile fiction.
West Virginia > History > Juvenile fiction.
Appalachian Region > History > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:In the poverty of the Appalachian coal country in 1908, eight-year-old Minna's life gets even more difficult after her father dies of black lung, and that winter she cannot go to school because she does not have a coat--until the quilting mothers make her a coat using pieces of cloth from their own lives, each with a special story behind it.
Physical Description:268 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
ISBN:9780316406215 (hardcover)
031640621X (hardcover)
Author Notes:Lauren A. Mills is the award-winning author and illustrator of The Rag Coat and The Goblin Baby and has retold and illustrated Thumbelina , Tatterhood and the Hobgoblins , and The Book of Little Folk . She is also the co-author of Fairy Wings , Fia and the Imp , and The Dog Prince .

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