Minna's patchwork coat, written and illustrated by Lauren A. Mills
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Label
Minna's patchwork coat, written and illustrated by Lauren A. Mills
Language
eng
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Minna's patchwork coat
Oclc number
896806720
Responsibility statement
written and illustrated by Lauren A. Mills
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
Target audience
pre adolescent
Creator
Subject
- Schools -- Fiction
- Coats -- Juvenile fiction
- Appalachian Region -- History -- Juvenile fiction
- Coats -- Fiction
- West Virginia -- History -- To 1950 -- Fiction
- Children of coal miners -- West Virginia -- Juvenile fiction
- Appalachian Region -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Quilting -- Fiction
- Elementary schools -- West Virginia -- Juvenile fiction
- Poor families -- West Virginia -- History -- Juvenile fiction
- Quilting -- Juvenile fiction
- West Virginia -- History -- Juvenile fiction
- Family life -- West Virginia -- Fiction
- Community life -- West Virginia -- History -- Juvenile fiction
- Community life -- West Virginia -- Fiction
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Outgoing Resources
- Classification2
- Creator1
- Subject15
- Schools -- Fiction
- Coats -- Juvenile fiction
- Appalachian Region -- History -- Juvenile fiction
- Coats -- Fiction
- West Virginia -- History -- To 1950 -- Fiction
- Children of coal miners -- West Virginia -- Juvenile fiction
- Appalachian Region -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Quilting -- Fiction
- Elementary schools -- West Virginia -- Juvenile fiction
- Poor families -- West Virginia -- History -- Juvenile fiction
- Quilting -- Juvenile fiction
- West Virginia -- History -- Juvenile fiction
- Family life -- West Virginia -- Fiction
- Community life -- West Virginia -- History -- Juvenile fiction
- Community life -- West Virginia -- Fiction
- Author1
- Illustrator1
- Mapped to1