Lyddie
By: Katherine Paterson
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780590981989
Subjects: Textile workers; Factories; Juvenile fiction; Work; Self-reliance; Fiction
Description: Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.
Notes: "This edition is only available for distribution through the school market."--Page 4 of cover.
Table of contents: title: The Bear; title: Kindly Friends; title: Cutler's Tavern; title: Frog in a Butter Churn; title: Going Home; title: Ezekial; title: South to Freedom; title: Number Five, Concord Corporation; title: The Weaving Room; title: Oliver; title: The Admirable Choice; title: I Will Not Be a Slave; title: Speed Up; title: Ills and Petitions; title: Rachel; title: Fever; title: Doffer; title: Charlie at Last; title: Diana; title: B Is for Brigid; title: Turpitude; title: Farewell; title: Vermont, November 1846.