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Ransom, Candice F.

The Promise Quilt

32 pp. | Walker | October, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-8027-8694-4 $$15.95 | Library ISBN 0-8027-8695-2 $$16.85
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Ellen Beier. With their mother, Addie and her brother struggle to make ends meet during the Civil War, as soldiers plunder their farm, and afterward, when they learn their father has died. Addie gives up her last memento of her father--his shirt--so that her mother can finish a quilt that will pay for books for their ravaged school. Beier's expressive watercolors capture both the rural Southern setting and the vulnerability and strength of the characters.
Reviewer: Anne St. John

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