The Viking Press, 1975. Later printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Slim hardcover, 47 pp. Illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon. INSCRIBED ON THE TITLE PAGE: " Nov. 21, 1992/ Dear ____/ Great to meet you! Best Wishes/ Sincerely/ Sharon Bell Mathis". Fine in fine dust jacket. Michael's hundred year old great aunt Dew kept an old box in her room filled with pennies--one for each birthday. Michael loved to sit at her feet while she told the story behind each one.

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Michael and his family have a new roommate - his Great, great aunt Dew is 100 and has nowhere else to go. Ruth, Michael's mother, is resentful about the extra burden that the elderly woman puts on her, complains that Dew does not like her, and has even begun to burn Dew's possessions in the furnace! Michael loves his Aunt Dew and saves the most special things from the fiery wrath - especially the brown, old, hundred penny box, which contains a wealth of stories. Newbery Honor (1976)

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Bookseller: The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: GE17272
Title: The Hundred Penny Box
Author: Sharon Bell Mathis
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Later printing
ISBN 10: 0670387878
ISBN 13: 9780670387878
Publisher: The Viking Press
Place of Publication: New York, New York, U.s.a.
Date Published: 1975
Keywords: black, african american, negro, children, signed , autographed
Bookseller catalogs: Children;

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The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).

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