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The Quilt

By Gary Paulsen

Book information

Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Year
2005
ISBN
0440229367, 9780440229360
Open Library ID
OL7520075M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1904960 bytes)
Pages
96\0
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

1944. Wartime. A six-year-old boy goes to spend the summer with his grandmother Alida in a small town near the Canadian border. With the men all gone off to fight, the women are left to run the farms. There’s plenty for the boy to do—trying to help with the chores, getting to know the dog, and the horses, cows, pigs, and chickens. But when his cousin Kristina goes into labor, he can’t do a thing. Instead, the house fills with women come to help and to wait, and to work on a quilt together. This is no common, everyday quilt, but one that contains all the stories of the boy’s family. The quilt tells the truth, past and future: of happiness, courage, and pain; of the greatest joy, and the greatest loss. And as they wait, the women share these memorable stories with the boy.From the Hardcover edition.

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