Ida Lou's Story

by Susan E. Kirby and Susan Kirby

Book Overview

A family, like a quilt, can be pieced together in many ways. And a quilt, like a family, is rich with stories. Lacey's great-grandmother has a trunkful of family quilts, and stories, she loves to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689809727
• ISBN13: 9780689809729
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.7" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Another heartwarming book from the American Quilts series.

Ida Lou Young lives in Bloomington, Illinois, in 1918 with her brother Vic and their mother. Their father deserted the family years ago. As war rages overseas, Ida's mother must struggle to make ends meet and provide for her children. Ida dreams of joining the circus as an aerialist, but her mother and brother discourage her. She also dreams that one day her father will return, even though that dream is even more unrealistic than her others. When her mother announces that she plans to marry a wealth man, Mr. Trainer, Ida is devastated, because deep down inside it confirms her worst fear - that her father is gone for good. When Ida is injured in a terrible accident, she fears she may never walk again. But as Ida will discover, there is always hope - for herself, the new family created by her mother's remarriage, and even for the war-torn world. This final book in the American Quilts series, the story of four generations of one American family, is another heartwarming portrait of life long ago.