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Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The quiltmaker grows up wealthy and sheltered, but radically changes her life after she discovers the poverty and need outside her town. When she realizes that she has the power to help people, the young girl finds a strength and peace she never knew before. Making the loveliest quilts in all the land, the young girl decides to give them away.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Harriet Powers learned to sew and quilt as a young slave girl on a Georgia plantation. She lived through the Civil War and Reconstruction, and eventually owned a cotton farm with her family, all the while relying on her skills with the needle to clothe and feed her children. Later she began making pictorial quilts, using each square to illustrate Bible stories and local legends. She exhibited her quilts at local cotton fairs, and though she never...
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