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The Keeping Quilt
By Polacco, Patricia
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-68982-090-8
- Publisher
- New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1998.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 1998
K-Gr 3 The changes in this revised edition of a book originally published in 1988 are subtle. The story recounts Polacco's great-grandmother's arrival in this country from Eastern Europe. Her dress and babushka become part of a quilt that has been handed down from generation to generation in the author's family. This book is special for the values it conveys, for the family traditions and the changes to them that it describes, and for the intergenerational love it portrays. Al...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
