The hired girl

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.).

Item details

ISBN: 076367818X
ISBN: 9780763678180
Physical Description: print
387 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2015.
Copyright: ©2015

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:	Part one: Girl with a cow -- Part two: The spirit of transportation -- Part three: The maidservant -- Part four: The warrior goddess of wisdom -- Part five: Joan of Arc -- Part six: Mariana in the moated grange -- Part seven: Girl reading.
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 5.7 18.0 176200. Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG+ 5.7 18.0 176200.
Awards Note:	New York Times Notable Children's Books, Young Adult, 2015 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, 2016 Sydney Taylor Book Award for Teen Readers, 2016 Sydney Taylor Award for Teen Readers, 2016. National Jewish Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature, 2016 Boston Globe/Horn Book Fiction Honor, 2016 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2016.

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