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Author:

Schlitz, Laura Amy, author.

Title:

The hired girl / Laura Amy Schlitz.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Candlewick Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

387 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Subject:

Teenage girls--Juvenile fiction.
Women household employees--Juvenile fiction.
Diaries--Authorship--Juvenile fiction.
Farm life--Juvenile fiction.
Pennsylvania--Juvenile fiction.
Baltimore (Md.)--Juvenile fiction.
Household employees--Fiction.
Diaries--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Baltimore (Md.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
YOUNG ADULT FICTION--20th Century.--United States--20th Century.
YOUNG ADULT FICTION--Jewish.--Jewish.
YOUNG ADULT FICTION--Class Differences.--Class Differences.
Diaries--Authorship.
Farm life.
Teenage girls.
Women household employees.
Maryland--Baltimore.
Pennsylvania.
Hired help--Fiction.
Pennsylvania--Fiction.
Young adult works.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction--Young adult.
Fiction.
Juvenile works.
Historical fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Historical fiction.

Contents:

Part seven: Girl reading. 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.

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.).

ISBN:

9780763678180
076367818X

OCLC:

(OCoLC)904967992

LCCN:

2014955411

Locations:

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls) — Copies: 5