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The hired girl

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Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, 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 remote 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.

Inspired by her own grandmother's journal, 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.

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Walker Books
1406367621 / 9781406367621
eBook (unknown)
813.6
17/09/2015
England
English
217 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
Quiz No: 229385, Points 18.00, Book Level 5.70,
Middle Years Plus - Key Stage 3 Learn More
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