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Bess's Log Cabin Quilt
By Himler, Ronald
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-82341-178-8
- Publisher
- New York : Holiday House, c1995.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 1995
Gr 3-4 Bess Morgan, 10, and her mother are alone on their farm in the Oregon Territory while her father travels with a wagon train. When Mrs. Morgan becomes ill and the family is threatened with eviction by a frontier loan shark, Bess decides to enter her first quilt in a contest to win enough money to pay the debt. Would that we all had children like brave Bess! She bakes biscuits for breakfast, takes care of her mother and the farm, then comes in and works on her quilt until her fingers are pr...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
