Nancy Keane's Booktalks -- Quick and Simple

Schotter, Roni.
MAMA, I'LL GIVE YOU THE WORLD
New York : Schwartz & Wade Books, 2006
IL K-3, RL 2.6
ISBN 0375836128
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 Every afternoon, Luisa is dropped off at the door to the world.  It's really Walter's World of Beauty but Lisa just calls it the World.  Her mother is a hairdresser at the World and works long hours to pay the bills.  So Luisa goes to the shop and sits in the corner to do her homework and talk with the clients until it is time for them to go home.  But Luisa has a secret that she knows will make her mother smile.  Can you guess what it is?
SUBJECTS:      Birthdays -- Fiction.
                        Single-parent families -- Fiction.
                        Beauty shops -- Fiction.

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