{"product_id":"the-hired-girl-9780763694500","title":"The Hired Girl","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2016 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 2016 Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Award Winner\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNewbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz brings her delicious wit and keen eye to early twentieth-century America in a moving yet comedic tour de force.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFourteen-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. Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz relates Joan's journey from the muck of the chicken coop to the comforts of a society household in Baltimore (Electricity  Carpet sweepers  Sending out the laundry ), taking readers on an exploration of feminism and housework; religion and literature; love and loyalty; cats, hats, and bunions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Candlewick Press (MA)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/26\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780763694500\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 6.00w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader Quiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e176200 \/ Hired Girl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 5.7 \/ \u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Middle Grade Plus \/ \u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 18\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Laura Amy Schlitz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36642250850460,"sku":"9780763694500","price":11.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ffde72ce-d712-49a6-a872-65867c4b6289.jpg?v=1603854637","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-hired-girl-9780763694500","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}