Large Print Book
The hired girl
Audience Teens 14-17 years
Published by Thorndike Press, Waterville, Maine
ISBN 9781432874162
Bib Id 2414489
Copyright 2020
Edition [Large print edition]
Description 603 p. (large print) : ill. ; 23 cm.
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The hired girl
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[Large print edition]
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2020
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603 p. (large print) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Summary
Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm girl could only dream of: a woman with a future. Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz relates Joan's journey from the muck of the chicken coop to the comforts of a society household in Baltimore (Electricity! Carpet sweepers! Sending out the laundry!), taking readers on an exploration of feminism and housework; religion and literature; love and loyalty; cats, hats, and bunions. (Inspired by the author's own grandmother's journal.).
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