01930cam a2200385 i 4500 615026332 TxAuBib 150316s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2014955411 9780763678180 076367818X (OCoLC)18374 YDXCP eng rda YDXCP BDX BTCTA KA7 OCLCO MNF OCLCO C9Z CGP ILC OCLCO ZHB OCLCO VP@ OCLCF OCLCO EHH IAD OCLCO UAB OCLCO NDS IUL GZI COO OCLCO WVX OUN TxAuBib rda Schlitz, Laura Amy, author. The hired girl / Laura Amy Schlitz. First edition. Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2015. ©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.) Young Adult. Teenage girls Juvenile fiction. Women household employees Juvenile fiction. Diaries Authorship Juvenile fiction. Farm life Juvenile fiction. Historical fiction. Fiction. Pennsylvania Juvenile fiction. Baltimore (Md) Juvenile fiction. Young adult fiction. Juvenile works.