Silk Umbrellas

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.

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First electronic edition 2014

The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Marsden, Carolyn.
Silk umbrellas / Carolyn Marsden. — 1st ed.
p.   cm.
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.
ISBN 978-0-7636-2257-2 (hardcover)
[1. Self-actualization (Psychology) — Fiction. 2. Family life — Thailand — Fiction. 3. Artists — Fiction. 4. Thailand — Fiction.]   I. Title. PZ7.M35135Si  2004
[Fic] — dc22     2003055323

ISBN 978-0-7636-3376-9 (paperback)
ISBN 978-0-7636-7191-4 (electronic)

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