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Hattie's Story
Contributor(s): Kirby, Susan (Author)

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 ISBN: 0689809700     ISBN-13: 9780689809705
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
OUR PRICE: $9.45  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 2000
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Annotation: Set in 1865, Hattie's father's dangerous work for the Underground Railroad jeopardizes the entire family's safety.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 00109122
Age Level: 8-12
Grade Level: 3-7
Series: American Quilts (Paperback)
Physical Information: 0.46" H x 5.16" W x 8.02" L (0.48 lbs) 192 pages
Features: Ikids, Price on Product
Review Citations: School Library Journal 03/01/2001 pg. 252
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 60712
Reading Level: 4.1   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 5.0
 
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Publisher Description:
A family, like a quilt, can be pieced together in many ways. And a quilt, like a family, is rich with stories. Lacey's great-grandmother has a trunkful of family quilts, and stories, she loves to share with Lacey. And the stories the old quilts tell help Lacey understand not only the generations that have come before her, but her own family as well.
Take Hattie, Lacey's great-great-great-grandmother, growing up in Mount Hope, Illinois in 1856. Illinois is a free state, but the law allows slave hunters to search for run way slaves, and tensions are pretty high between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in town. Hattie is caught in the middle: her best friend's father is the local constable, and Hattie's own father seems to be involved in some pretty dangerous -- and illegal -- business. But nothing can prepare Hattie for the tragedy that awaits the little town when the tensions finally explode.
 
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