Counting on Grace
By: Elizabeth Winthrop
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780385908788; 9780385746441
Subjects: Pownal (Vt.); Cotton manufacture; Juvenile fiction; Child labor; Friendship; Fiction
Description: It's 1910 in Pownal, Vermont. At 12 Grace and her best friend Arthur must go to work in the mill, helping their mothers work the looms. Together Grace and Arthur write a secret letter to the Child Labor Board about underage children working in the mill. A few weeks later, Lewis Hine, a famous reformer arrives undercover to gather evidence. Grace meets him and appears in some of his photographs, changing her life forever.
Notes: 008-012.

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