02987nam a2200373 4500 hiredgirl0000schl CaSfIA 20250725130713.0 m o d cr|||||||||||| 151005s2015 mau do 000 1 eng d 076367818X 9780763678180 (OCoLC)920679923 IlBcCP CaSfIA [Fic] 23 Schlitz, Laura Amy. The hired girl / Laura Amy Schlitz. First edition. Somerville, MA : Candlewick Press, [2015] 1 online resource (387 pages) Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz brings her delicious wit and keen eye to early twentieth-century America in a moving yet comedic tour de force. 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. 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. 789Y Childrens Plus, Inc. Teenage girls Juvenile fiction. Young adult fiction. https://archive.org/details/hiredgirl0000schl Free eBook from the Internet Archive https://openlibrary.org/books/OL27187262M Additional information and access via Open Library hiredgirl0000schl ark:/13960/t39110b70