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Author	Schlitz, Laura Amy.
Title	The hired girl / Laura Amy Schlitz.
Publication Info.	Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2015.
	©2015

Location	Call No.	Status
Little Whit Young Adult	YA-HS S	IN LIBRARY

Edition	First edition.
Description	387 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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. (Inspired by the author's own grandmother's journal.)
Subject	Teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction.
	Women household employees -- Juvenile fiction.
	Diaries -- Authorship -- Juvenile fiction.
	Farm life -- Juvenile fiction.
	Pennsylvania -- Juvenile fiction.
	Baltimore (Md.) -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre or Form	Young adult fiction.
	Historical fiction.
	Fiction.
	Juvenile works.
ISBN	076367818X (hardback)
	9780763678180 (hardback)

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