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Missy Violet & me / by Barbara Hathaway.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PZ7.H2819 Mi 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hathaway, Barbara, 1944- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Midwives--Juvenile fiction.
- Midwives.
- Parturition--Juvenile fiction.
- Parturition.
- Childbirth--Juvenile fiction.
- Childbirth.
- Labor (Obstetrics)--Juvenile fiction.
- Labor (Obstetrics).
- African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
- African Americans.
- Midwives--Fiction.
- Childbirth--Fiction.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Juvenile materials.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 100 pages ; 19 cm
- Other Title:
- Missy Violet and me
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2004.
- Summary:
- During the early 1900s, eleven-year-old Viney spends her summer working for the local midwife and learns firsthand about birth, death, and "catchin' babies."
- Notes:
- "Copyright ©2004 by Barbara Hathaway"--verso of title page.
- "The text of this book is set in 12-point Granjon"--verso of title page.
- Coretta Scott King Book Awards John Steptoe Award for New Talent - Author, Winner, 2005
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy retains dust jacket.
- ISBN:
- 061837163X
- 9780618371631
- 1415539561
- 9781415539569
- OCLC:
- 52948685
- Publisher Number:
- 9780618371631
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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