| Title | : | The Hired Girl |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Laura Amy Schlitz |
| Release | : | 2015-09-08 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Historical Fiction for Kids, Books, Kids, Fiction for Kids, Young Adult, Fiction for Young Adults, Historical Fiction for Young Adults, Coming of Age for Young Adults |
| Size | : | 6046510 |
| Winner of the 2016 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction; A 2016 Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Award Winner; Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. 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. |
