An edition of A Chair for My Mother (1982)

A Chair for My Mother

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An edition of A Chair for My Mother (1982)

A Chair for My Mother

by and

  • ★★★★ 4.3 (3 ratings)
  • 84 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 14 Have read

A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire.

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Publisher
Tandem Library
Language
/languages/eng
Pages
32

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Subjects

Fiction, Saving and investment, Chairs, Family life, Bilingual, Hmong language materials, Family, Juvenile fiction, Blind, Books and reading, Families, Waitresses, Single-parent families, Grandmothers, Generosity, Fires, Caldecott medal, Saving and thrift, 1000blackgirlbooks, Children's fiction, Mothers, fiction, Family life, fiction, Chairs, fiction, Money, fiction, Readers, Spanish language materials, Spanish language, Ahorro, Ficción juvenil, Sillas, Vida familiar, collectionID:caldecotthonor80, Literature and fiction, juvenile, award:Caldecott_award, age:min:3, age:max:13, grade:min:Kindergarten, grade:max:3

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Cover of: A Chair for My Mother
A Chair for My Mother
October 1999, Tandem Library
School & Library Binding in /languages/eng
Cover of: Un sillón para mi mamá
Un sillón para mi mamá
1994, Mulberry Books
in /languages/spa - 1st Mulberry Spanish-language ed.
Cover of: Un Sillon Para Mi Mama
Un Sillon Para Mi Mama
1993, Scholastic
Cover of: Un sillon para mi mama
Un sillon para mi mama
1993, Scholastic
in /languages/spa and /languages/eng
Cover of: A chair for my mother
A chair for my mother
1988, Mulberry, Greenwillow Books
in /languages/eng
Cover of: A chair for my mother
A chair for my mother
1982, Scholastic
in /languages/eng
Cover of: A chair for my mother
A chair for my mother
1982, Greenwillow Books
in /languages/eng - 1st ed.

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First Sentence

"My mother works as a waitress in the Blue Tile Diner."

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The Physical Object

Format
School & Library Binding
Number of pages
32
Weight
11 ounces

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL9841728M
ISBN 10
0808533851
ISBN 13
9780808533856
LibraryThing
134335
Goodreads
6521923

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL3243597W

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My mother works as a waitress in the Blue Tile Diner.
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Mi madre trabaja de camarera en el restaurante Blue Tile.
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Mi madre trabaja de camarera en el restaurante Blue Tile.
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