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Title:
The hired girl / Laura Amy Schlitz.
Author:
Schlitz, Laura Amy, author.
Publication Information:
Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2015.
Call Number:
YA SCHLITZ HIRE 2015
Abstract:
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.)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780763678180
Physical Description:
387 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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