Confederates don't wear couture / by Stephanie Kate Strohm.
Record details
- ISBN: 054797258X : PAP
- ISBN: 9780547972589 : PAP
- ISBN: 9780547972589
- ISBN: 054797258X
- Physical Description: 226 p. ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Sequel to: Pilgrims don't wear pink. |
Summary, etc.: | While touring with group of Confederate Civil War re-enactors for a summer internship, Libby and Dev attempt to design and sell Southern Confederate costumes for a ball, investigate haunted battle grounds, and seek handsome Southern soldier boys. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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East Side Branch - Bridgeport | YA STROHM (Text) | 34000080834054 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Janet Carlson Calvert Library - Franklin | YA F STR (Text) | 33345000242537 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Salem Free Public Library | YFIC STR (Text) | 33640128115809 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
BookList Review
Confederates Don't Wear Couture : A Tale of Heartache, Haunting, and Hoop Skirts.
Booklist
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History-loving Libby Kelting spent last summer in Camden, Maine, churning butter in a corset (Pilgrims Don't Wear Pink, 2012). This summer she is taking to the battlefields literally. Dev, her fab designer best friend, has lined up a gig selling Confederate Couture to the wives and girlfriends of Civil War reenactors, and yes, that means Libby is modeling hoop skirts in the Alabama heat. While her boyfriend, Garrett, is working for a newspaper in Boston, she is hanging around Beau, a handsome, waltzing, history-spouting reenactor. Dev proclaims that what happens in 1861 stays in 1861, but Libby can't forget her Northern beau that easily, can she? Throw in a ghost that is haunting the campgrounds and you've got the makings of a memorable summer below the Mason-Dixon Line. Fun beach reading peppered with plenty of fascinating historical tidbits.--Kelley, Ann Copyright 2010 Booklist
Kirkus Review
Confederates Don't Wear Couture : A Tale of Heartache, Haunting, and Hoop Skirts.
Kirkus Reviews
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History-nerd extraordinaire Libby Kelting returns for another summer of costumed drama. Having spent the previous summer in colonial garb (Pilgrims Don't Wear Pink, 2012), Libby doesn't find it too hard to agree to spend the months before college on campaign with Civil War re-enactors, in partnership with her gay, designer BFF, Dev. They will be sutlers to the Confederate armies (who have a way better sense of style than the Yankees). Libby will model the gowns; Dev will take orders and sew them up when they get home; they will make buckets of dough. The only problem? Libby will have to spend the summer far from her boyfriend, aspiring journalist Garrett. Once in the South, Libby and Dev meet their sponsors, a canny businesswoman and her adorable, history-loving son, Beau, an officer with the regiment they're attached to--and whose family is bedeviled by a ghost. Hijinks and romantic anxiety ensue. The merriment is compounded by a troop of overeager Boy Scouts, an evil land developer and the arrival of Garrett, who uses the excuse of the ghost to extend his internship with the Boston Globe to the battlefields of the Deep South. The ghost plot feels tired and Scooby-Dooish--in fact, Scooby is explicitly invoked, joining a host of other pop-culture references that range from Glee to Twilight. It's all harmless summer fun, but it has the feeling of the retread that it is; perhaps next year Libby should get a different sort of summer job. (Fiction. 12 up)]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.