Minna's patchwork coat / written and illustrated by Lauren A. Mills.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015Edition: First editionDescription: 268 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780316406215
- 031640621X
- Children of coal miners -- West Virginia -- Juvenile fiction
- Coats -- Juvenile fiction
- Quilting -- Juvenile fiction
- Poor families -- West Virginia -- History -- Juvenile fiction
- Children of coal miners -- Juvenile fiction
- Community life -- West Virginia -- History -- Juvenile fiction
- Elementary schools -- West Virginia -- Juvenile fiction
- Schools -- Juvenile fiction
- Family life -- West Virginia -- Fiction
- West Virginia -- History -- Juvenile fiction
- Appalachian Region -- History -- Juvenile fiction
- Appalachian Region -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | Mills Lauren A | Available | 33111008346468 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In this charming historical novel, acclaimed artist Lauren A. Mills reimagines her beloved picture book, The Rag Coat , with fifty delicate pencil illustrations and an expanded story about a resilient little girl, her patchwork coat, and how the two bring a community together.
Minna and her family don't have much in their small Appalachian cabin, but "people only need people," Papa always reminds her. Unable to afford a winter coat to wear to school, she's forced to use an old feed sack to keep her warm. Then Papa's terrible cough from working in the coal mines takes him away forever, and Minna has a hard time believing that anything will be right again...until her neighbors work tirelessly to create a coat for her out of old fabric scraps. Now Minna must show her teasing classmates that her coat is more than just rags--it's a collection of their own cherished memories, each with a story to share.
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.
Middle School.