Laura Amy Schlitz
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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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...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2008, c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In the early twentieth century, young orphan Maud Flynn hopes to finally be loved when she is adopted by the elderly Hawthorne sisters, but she is instead roped into the family's crooked séance business.