The Hired Girl
Winner of the 2016 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction A 2016 Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Award Winner minimum order 25 books
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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.
