Anna the Bookbinder

Anna the Bookbinder by Cheng, Andrea. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780802788313.

Anna loves to sit in the corner of her fathers workshop watching his skillful hands as they lovingly repair books. She understands what other people do not: Though the new large binderies that are stealing her fathers business can bind books faster, their work will not endure as long. To many customers though, speed matters more than skill. Her fathers most important client threatens to pull his business unless his latest order of books is rebound in three days. Annas father works long hours struggling to complete the order, but all seems lost when Annas pregnant mother goes into labor the night before the order is due. Determined not to let her father fail, Anna decides to take the fate of the family business into her own hands.