The Glass Cafe
 The Glass Cafe first edition cover. | |
| Author | Gary Paulsen |
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| Cover artist | Brian Dugan |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Young-adult fiction |
| Publisher | Wendy Lamb Books |
Publication date | June 10, 2003 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 112 pp (first edition) |
| ISBN | 0-385-32499-5 |
| OCLC | 50583384 |
| LC Class | PZ7.P2843 Gl 2003 |
The Glass Cafe (The 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 by Gary Paulsen. It is about a twelve-year-old boy whose mother is a stripper.
Plot introduction
Tony is fascinated 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 0-385-32499-5, Pub date June 10, 2003, Hardback
- 2004, USA, Laurel Leaf, ISBN 0-440-23843-9, Pub date November 9, 2004, Paperback
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