TY  - BOOK
AU  - Winthrop,Elizabeth
TI  - Counting on Grace
SN  - 038574644X (hardcover) :
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Wendy Lamb Books
KW  - Child labor
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Cotton manufacture
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Pownal (Vt.)
N1  - Ages 8-12
N2  - 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
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