The hired girl
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...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Somerville, MA :
Candlewick Press,
[2015]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 387 pages ; 23 cm |
| Audience: | Young Adult. |
| ISBN: | 076367818X (hardback) 9780763678180 (hardback) |
| Author Notes: | (Bowker Author Biography) |
