TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mills,Lauren A.
TI  - Minna's patchwork coat
SN  - 9780316406215 
AV  - PZ7.M63979 Mi 2015
U1  - FIC MIL 
KW  - Children of coal miners
KW  - West Virginia
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Coats
KW  - Quilting
KW  - Poor families
KW  - History
KW  - Community life
KW  - Elementary schools
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Family life
KW  - Schools
KW  - Appalachian Region
KW  - To 1950
KW  - 20th century
N2  - 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
ER  -