Title: The Quilt
First published: 2004
Description: 1944. Wartime. A six-year-old boy goes to spend the summer with his grandmother Alida in a small town near the Canadian border. With the men all gone off to fight, the women are left to run the farms. There's plenty for the boy to do--trying to help with the chores, getting to know the dog, and the horses, cows, pigs, and chickens. But when his cousin Kristina goes into labor, he can't do a thing. Instead, the house fills with women come to help and to wait, and to work on a quilt together. This is no common, everyday quilt, but one that contains all the stories of the boy's family. The quilt tells the truth, past and future: of happiness, courage, and pain; of the greatest joy, and the greatest loss. And as they wait, the women share these memorable stories with the boy.From the Hardcover edition.
Subjects: Fiction, Grandmothers, Childbirth, Norwegian Americans, World War, 1939-1945, Juvenile Fiction, Children's fiction, Grandparents, fiction, Childbirth, fiction, World war, 1939-1945, fiction
Places: United States
LC classification: PZ7.P2843 Qu 2004