02082cam a2200433 i 4500 361489742 TxAuBib 20160602120000.0 141028s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2014955411 9780763678180 076367818X (OCoLC)904967992 TxAuBib rda Schlitz, Laura Amy. The hired girl / Laura Amy Schlitz. First edition. Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2015. 387 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. (Inspired by the author's own grandmother's journal.) 20160602. New York Times Notable Children's Books, Young Adult, 2015. Teenage girls Juvenile fiction. Teenage girls. Women household employees Juvenile fiction. Diaries Authorship Juvenile fiction. Farm life Juvenile fiction. Fiction. Pennsylvania Juvenile fiction. Baltimore (Md) Juvenile fiction. Historical fiction. Young adult fiction. Juvenile works. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1610/2014955411-b.html Contributor biographical information https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1610/2014955411-d.html Publisher description