TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schlitz,Laura Amy
TI  - The hired girl
SN  - 076367818X
AV  - YA PZ 7 .S347145 Hi 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Somerville, Massachusetts
PB  - Candlewick Press
KW  - Teenage girls
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Women household employees
KW  - Diaries
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Farm life
KW  - Pennsylvania
KW  - Baltimore (Md.)
KW  - Young adult fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - 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.)
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