Title: Lyddie
First published: January 1, 1996
Description: Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.
Subjects: Textile workers, Factories, Juvenile fiction, Work, Self-reliance, Fiction, Weaving, Textile factories, Large type books, Children's fiction, Girls, fiction, Work, fiction, Massachusetts, fiction, Children, fiction, Friendship, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Slavery, Fugitive slaves, African Americans, Identity (Philosophical concept), Self-reliance, fiction, Self-esteem, fiction
Places: Lowell, Lowell (Mass.), Massachusetts, Vermont