The Hired Girl
By: Laura Amy Schlitz
Edition: First Edition (2)
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Somerville, MA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780763678180
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Juvenile fiction; Teenage girls
Description: Today Miss Chandler gave me this beautiful book. I vow that I will never forget her kindness to me, and I will use this book as she told me to—that I will write in it with truth and refinement…But who could be refined living at Steeple Farm?

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 grandmother’s journal, Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz brings her sharp wit and keen eye to early twentieth-century America in a comedic tour de force destined to become a modern classic. 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!) takes its reader on an exploration of feminism and housework, religion and literature, love and loyalty, cats, hats, bunions, and burns.
--front flap
Table of contents: label: Part One
title: Girl with a Cow
pagenum: 1; label: Part Two
title: The Spirit of Transportation
pagenum: 63; label: Part Three
title: The Maidservant
pagenum: 107; label: Part Four
title: The Warrior Goddess of Wisdom
pagenum: 195; label: Part Five
title: Joan of Arc
pagenum: 245; label: Part Six
title: Mariana in the Moated Grange
pagenum: 309; label: Part Seven
title: Girl Reading
pagenum: 379