01740cam a2200313 4500 558601188 TxAuBib 20220516120000.0 220516s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781432874179 1432874179 TxAuBib Schiltz, Laura Amy. The hired girl. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2020. 603 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm. Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs 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. Laura Amy Schlitz relates Joan's journey from the muck of the chicken coup to the comforts of a society household in Baltimore, taking readers on a exploration of feminism and housework, religion and literature, and love and loyalty. 5th Grade RL (5.7): AR Find. 20220516. Teenage girls Juvenile fiction. Women household employees Juvenile fiction. Diaries Authorship Juvenile fiction. Farm life Juvenile fiction. Historical Fiction. Pennsylvania Juvenile fiction. Baltimore (Md) Juvenile fiction. Large type book. TXCKT