Counting on Grace /
Winthrop, Elizabeth.
Counting on Grace / Elizabeth Winthrop. - New York : Wendy Lamb Books, c2006. - 232 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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.
Ages 8-12.
A Junior Library Guild selection.
038574644X (hardcover) : $15.95 0385908784 (lib. bdg.)
Child labor--Juvenile fiction.
Cotton manufacture--Juvenile fiction.
Friendship--Juvenile fiction.
Pownal (Vt.)--Juvenile fiction.
Counting on Grace / Elizabeth Winthrop. - New York : Wendy Lamb Books, c2006. - 232 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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.
Ages 8-12.
A Junior Library Guild selection.
038574644X (hardcover) : $15.95 0385908784 (lib. bdg.)
Child labor--Juvenile fiction.
Cotton manufacture--Juvenile fiction.
Friendship--Juvenile fiction.
Pownal (Vt.)--Juvenile fiction.