Leaving Gee's Bend

Latham, Irene.

Book 2010

Ludelphia Bennett, a determined, ten-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 she recounts her ensuing adventures in a quilt she is making.

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African Americans Juvenile fiction

Alabama History 1819-1950 Juvenile fiction

Quilting Juvenile fiction

Quilts Juvenile fiction

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ISBN:

9780399251795

Description:

230 pages

LCCN:

2009008732

Control Number:

699754

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