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Title Silk umbrellas / Carolyn Marsden.
Author Marsden, Carolyn.
Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2004.
Book Cover
Copies/Volumes
Edition 1st ed.
Description 134 p. ; 19 cm.
Awards A Junior Library Guild selection.
Note Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 5.4 2.0.
Summary Eleven-year-old Noi worries that she will have to stop painting the silk umbrellas her family sells at the market near their Thai village and be forced to join her older sister in difficult work at a local factory instead.
Subject Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Family life -- Thailand -- Fiction.
Artists -- Fiction.
Thailand -- Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Juvenile fiction.
Family -- Thailand -- Juvenile fiction.
Artists -- Juvenile fiction.
Thailand -- Juvenile fiction.
ISBN 0763622575 (alk. paper) : $15.99