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Hardcover The Glass Cafe: Or the Stripper and the State; How My Mother Started a War with the System That Made Us Kind of Rich and a Little Bit Famous Book

ISBN: 0385324995

ISBN13: 9780385324991

The Glass Cafe: Or the Stripper and the State; How My Mother Started a War with the System That Made Us Kind of Rich and a Little Bit Famous

(Book #4 in the Tales to Tickle the Funnybone Series)

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THE STORY IS all true and happened to me and is mine. Tony's mom, Al, is a terrific single mother who works as a dancer at the Kitty Kat Club. Twelve-year-old Tony is a budding artist, inspired by backstage life at the club. When some of his drawings end up in an art show and catch the attention of the social services agency, Al and Tony find themselves in the middle of a legal wrangle and a media circus. Is Al a responsible mother? It's the case of the stripper vs. the state, and Al isn't giving Tony up without a fight. Once again Gary Paulsen proves why he's one of America's most-beloved writers. The Glass Caf? is a fresh and funny exploration of motherhood, art, and the wiles of storytelling-all told by Tony, in his own true voice. From the Hardcover edition. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Don't worry about your kids reading this one.

I laughed all through this book and I'm an adult (although my wife sometimes will disagree with that). It is somewhat of a farce, but tells a great, funny story. The story of a mother doing what it takes to raise and defend her son is told from the son's viewpoint. Although the mother is a stripper and the son does draw some nude dancers, there are no descriptions of nudity in the book. Those who are looking for that...

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The Glass Cafe

Twelve-year-old Tony Henson is a skilled artist and his mother Alice is an exotic dancer at the Kitty Kat Club. Inspired by the backstage life of the club, Tony starts accompanying his mother to work and draws pictures of the dancers there. He gives some of the drawings to Ms. Klein, his art teacher. She thinks they are wonderful and submits them in an art contest. One day while getting ready for work, Alice receives a call...

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"The Best Book I Ever Read"

" I think this book is great! If you read a chapter of it you'll have to keep reading because this is a pageturner and this is the best book I ever read. I think everyone my age (10) should read this book because it's so exiting and interesting and Tony (the main character) is a good artist and I like to draw also so I chose this book not knowing that I would finish it so quickly. I loved this book!"

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Richie's Picks: THE GLASS CAFE

"So you know my name is Tony and I am twelve and my mother who is named Alice except nobody calls her that, they all call her Al, like she was a guy only she isn't, is a stripper, only it's called exotic dancing, at a place called the Kitty Kat, except that everybody calls it the Zoo on account of an animal act they used to have but don't anymore because the humane society said it was wrong to use snakes out of their "natural...

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Richie's Picks: THE GLASS CAFE

"So you know my name is Tony and I am twelve and my mother who is named Alice except nobody calls her that, they all call her Al, like she was a guy only she isn't, is a stripper, only it's called exotic dancing, at a place called the Kitty Kat, except that everybody calls it the Zoo on account of an animal act they used to have but don't anymore because the humane society said it was wrong to use snakes out of their "natural...

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