| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
387 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Summary |
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. Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz relates 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!), taking readers on an exploration of feminism and housework; religion and literature; love and loyalty; cats, hats, and bunions. (Inspired by the author's own grandmother's journal.). |
| Awards |
New York Times Notable Children's Books, Young Adult, 2015 |
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Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, 2016 |
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Sydney Taylor Book Award for Teen Readers, 2016 |
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National Jewish Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature, 2016 |
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Boston Globe/Horn Book Fiction Honor, 2016 |
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Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2016. |
| Contents |
Part one: Girl with a cow -- Part two: The spirit of transportation -- Part three: The maidservant -- Part four: The warrior goddess of wisdom -- Part five: Joan of Arc -- Part six: Mariana in the moated grange -- Part seven: Girl reading. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 5.7 18.0 176200. |
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Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG+ 5.7 18.0 176200. |
| Subject |
Teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction.
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Women household employees -- Juvenile fiction.
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Diaries -- Authorship -- Juvenile fiction.
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Farm life -- Juvenile fiction.
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Pennsylvania -- Juvenile fiction.
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Baltimore (Md.) -- Juvenile fiction.
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Household employees -- Fiction.
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Diaries -- Fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Baltimore (Md.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION -- Historical -- United States -- 20th Century.
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION -- Religious -- Jewish.
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION -- Social Themes -- Class Differences.
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Diaries -- Authorship.
(OCoLC)fst00892658
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Farm life. (OCoLC)fst00921052
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Teenage girls. (OCoLC)fst01145412
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Women household employees. (OCoLC)fst01734125
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Maryland -- Baltimore.
(OCoLC)fst01204292
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Pennsylvania. (OCoLC)fst01204598
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Hired help -- Fiction.
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Pennsylvania -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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Historical fiction -- Young adult.
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Historical fiction.
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Young adult fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
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| ISBN |
076367818X (hardback) |
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9780763678180 (hardback) |
