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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
That Book Woman

That Book Woman

Small, David
Henson, Heather

Hardcover

General Juvenile FictionHistory

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ISBN10: 1416908129
ISBN13: 9781416908128
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: Oct 7 2008
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.43 Width: 10.24 Depth: 8.18
Language: English
Awards: Arkansas Diamond Primary Book Award, Beehive Awards, Black-Eyed Susan Award, Bluebonnet Awards, Christopher Awards, Georgia Children's Book Award, Golden Sower Award, Great Lakes Book Awards, Keystone to Reading Book Award, Parents Choice Awards (Fall) (2008-Up)
An exquisitely illustrated paean to everyone who struggles to learn how to read, and to everyone who won't give up on them.

Cal is not the readin' type. Living way high up in the Appalachian Mountains, he'd rather help Pap plow or go out after wandering sheep than try some book learning. Nope. Cal does not want to sit stoney-still reading some chicken scratch. But that Book Woman keeps coming just the same. She comes in the rain. She comes in the snow. She comes right up the side of the mountain, and Cal knows that's not easy riding. And all just to lend his sister some books. Why, that woman must be plain foolish--or is she braver than he ever thought?

That Book Woman is a rare and moving tale that honors a special part of American history--the Pack Horse Librarians, who helped untold numbers of children see the stories amid the chicken scratch, and thus made them into lifetime readers.

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