Leaving Gee's Bend by Latham, Irene 

BTSB Prebound(Putnam, 2010)


Publication Date: 01/15/2010

BTSB #: 544520 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.5 MG RC: 4.3 3-5 Lexile: 700

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Quilting - Fiction Quilts - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Alabama - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: Ludelphia Bennett, a determined 10-year-old African American girl in 1932 Gee's Bend, Alabama, leaves home in an effort to find medical help for her sick mother, and recounts her ensuing adventures in a quilt she is making.

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Minna's patchwork coat by Mills, Lauren A. 

BTSB Prebound(Little, Brown, 2015)


Publication Date: 11/03/2015

BTSB #: 647359 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
F&P: S

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Coats - Fiction Quilting - Fiction Family night - West Virginia - Fiction Community life - West Virginia - Fiction School stories West Virginia - History|yTo 1950 - Fiction Appalachian Region - History|y20th century - Fiction

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.

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Needlework : a novel by Watts, Julia 

Paperback(Ingram, 2021)


Publication Date: 10/05/2021

BTSB #: 924174 Available

Dewey: FAges: 15-18   


Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Secrets - Fiction Drug addicts - Fiction Opioid abuse - Fiction Grandmother-granchild relationship - Fiction Mother-son relationship - Fiction Quilting - Fiction Kentucky - Fiction

Summary: In rural Kentucky, a sixteen-year-old boy with a love of quilting, cooking and Dolly Parton helps his grandma care for his opioid-addicted mother, until the discovery of a family secret upends everything he has ever believed.

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Nesting quilt by Falwell, Cathryn 

BTSB Prebound(Tilbury House Publishers, 2015)


Publication Date: 05/15/2015

BTSB #: 321095 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
Lexile: 510 AD

Genres: Animals Family Life

Subjects: Quilting - Fiction Family life - Fiction Birds - Nests - Fiction Infants - Fiction

Summary: Maya's family is preparing for a new baby and she wants to help, so she draws on her interest in birds' nests to create a very special quilt. Includes information about quilt making and instructions for making a small quilt.

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Patchwork quilt by Flournoy, Valerie 

BTSB Prebound(Dial Books for Young Readers, 1985)

BTSB #: 343740 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
AR: 3.7 LG RC: 3.5 K-2 Lexile: 590 AD F&P: O

Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Quilting - Fiction Family life - Fiction African Americans - Fiction

Summary: Using scraps cut from the family's old clothing, Tanya helps her grandmother make a beautiful quilt that tells the story of her family's life.

She stitched the stars : a story of Ellen Harding Baker's solar system quilt by Harris, Jennifer 

BTSB Prebound(Whitman, 2021)


Publication Date: 10/15/2021

BTSB #: 421767 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
Lexile: 620 AD

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Baker, Ellen Harding,|d1847-1886 - Fiction Quilting - Fiction Astronomy - Fiction Gender role - Fiction

Summary: In 1876, Ellen Harding Baker begins stitching a quilt that accurately depicts the solar system, demonstrating to her daughters that they can dream bigger and look farther.

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