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The Hired Girl

The Hired Girl

Winner of the 2016 Scott Oâ€™Dell Award for Historical Fiction
A 2016 Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Award Winner
Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Childrenâ€™s and Young Adult Literature

Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz brings her delicious wit and keen eye to early twentieth-century America in a moving yet comedic tour de force.

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 herselfâ€”because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm girl could only dream ofâ€”a woman with a future. Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz relates Joanâ€™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.
Country USA
Brand Candlewick Press
Manufacturer Candlewick
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber illustrations
ReleaseDate 2015-09-08
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780763678180

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