The Quilt

by Gary Paulsen

Hardcover, 2004

Tags

NCSS Standards Theme--Culture, NCSS Standards Theme--Individual Development and Identity, NCSS Standards Theme--Time-Continuity-Change, History, Life, History-Life-and Culture in the Americas, Reading Level-Intermediate (3-5)Reading Level-Middle (6-8), History Life, & Culture in the Americas, Reading Level-Intermediate (3-5), Reading Level-Middle (6-8)

Genres

Collection

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People

Publication

Wendy Lamb Books (2004), Edition: First Edition, 96 pages

Description

During World War II, while his father is in Europe fighting and his mother is working in Chicago, a five-year-old boy goes to live with his grandmother in a rural Norwegian American community in Minnesota. Based on events from the author's life.

Subjects

Childbirth Fiction
Grandmothers Fiction
Norwegian Americans Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 United States Fiction

Awards

NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People (2005)

Language

English

Original language

English

ISBN

0385729502 / 9780385729505

DDC/MDS

517

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