- The Glass Cafe
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name = The Glass Cafe
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image_caption = "The Glass Cafe" first edition cover.
author =Gary Paulsen
illustrator =
cover_artist = Brian Dugan
country =United States
language = English
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genre =Young-adult fiction
publisher = Wendy Lamb Books
pub_date = June 10, 2003
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media_type = Print (Hardback &Paperback )
pages = 112 pp "(first edition)"
isbn = ISBN 0385324995
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followed_by ="The Glass Cafe" (full title "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"), is a
young-adult fiction novella byGary Paulsen . It is about a twelve-year-old boy whose mother is a stripper.Plot introduction
Tony is fasinated with art, and goes to the club that his mom works at to draw pictures of some of the ladies. When his art teacher looks at the drawings, she wants to put them up in a museum for a contest.When people look at the pictures of the ladies Tony's mom gets in trouble and is sent to court for letting her son draw pornographic pictures. Tony's mom explains that it was just art, and tells them the story of the Glass Cafe.
Publication history
*2003, USA, Wendy Lamb Books ISBN 0385324995, Pub date June 10, 2003, Hardback
*2004, USA, Laurel Leaf, ISBN 0440238439, Pub date November 9, 2004, Paperback
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