The Hired Girl
Laura
Amy Schlitz
Sch394h
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.
(from publisher)
