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Minna's patchwork coat, written and illustrated by Lauren A. Mills

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Minna's patchwork coat

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written and illustrated by Lauren A. Mills

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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