TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schlitz,Laura Amy
TI  - The hired girl
SN  - 9780763678180 (hardcover) :
AV  - PZ7.S35589 .Hir 2015
U1  - [Fic] 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Somerville, Massachusetts
PB  - Candlewick Press
KW  - Women household employees
KW  - Baltimore (Md.)
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Ambition
KW  - Jewish families
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Junior Library Guild; 11-14; 6-9
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
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