The hired girl / Laura Amy Schlitz.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2017Edition: First paperback editionDescription: 387 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0763694509
- 9780763694500
- New York Times Notable Children's Books, Young Adult, 2015
- Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, 2016
- Sydney Taylor Book Award for Teen Readers, 2016
- National Jewish Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature, 2016
- Boston Globe/Horn Book Fiction Honor, 2016
- Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2016
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | Fiction | SCHILITZ LAURA | Available | 33111010560403 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction
An Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Award Winner
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature
"Schlitz has crafted another exquisite literary gem, one told entirely via Joan's vivid, humorous, and emotionally resonant diary entries." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart and her hope out into her diary -- 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 brings her delicious wit and keen eye to early twentieth-century America in a moving yet comedic tour de force, available in paperback.
New York Times Notable Children's Books, Young Adult, 2015
Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, 2016
Sydney Taylor Book Award for Teen Readers, 2016
National Jewish Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature, 2016
Boston Globe/Horn Book Fiction Honor, 2016
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2016
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.
Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs chronicles her life in a journal when she leaves her family's farm in Pennsylvania to work as a hired girl in Baltimore in the summer of 1911.