The Hired Girl

Name: The Hired Girl
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Laura Amy Schlitz
ISBN: 9781501901898

Author: Laura Amy Schlitz

Narrator: Rachel Botchan

Unabridged: 12 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/08/2015

Categories: Children's Fiction, Historical Stories

Synopsis

“Schlitz has crafted another exquisite literary gem, one told entirely via Joan’s vivid, humorous, and emotionally resonant diary entries.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Honor Book, Fiction (Winner) • National Jewish Book Award (Winner) • California Young Reader Medal (Nominated) • L.A. Times Book Prize (Nominated) • Sydney Taylor Book Award (Winner) • Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction (Winner) Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart and her hope out into her diary—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 brings her delicious wit and keen eye to early twentieth-century America in a moving yet comedic tour de force.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily May on October 12, 2015

If I had books, if I could scrape together an education, I'd have a future, whether any man ever asked me to marry him or not. Maybe you've seen this book lurking around with its high ratings and positive reviews. Maybe you've even noticed that it got critical acclaim, a Kirkus star, and that the......more

Goodreads review by Candi on April 07, 2020

"Today Miss Chandler gave me this beautiful book. I vow that I will never forget her kindness to me, and I will use this book as she told me to – I will write in it with truth and refinement." What a charming coming-of-age story! It is written as a series of diary entries by a precocious, fourteen-ye......more

Goodreads review by Betsy on October 05, 2015

Bildungsroman. Definition: “A novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education.” A certain strain of English major quivers at the very term. Get enough Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man shoved down your gullet and you’d be quivering too. I don’t run across such books very......more

Goodreads review by Tiz. on June 06, 2015

And here is what YA should bloody well look like. This book has EVERYTHING: - A compelling, funny, intelligent, resourceful but not perfect main character.who takes hold of her life with bravery and wit - An interesting, well-research setting (both the Farm and Baltimore) in which the time's struggles......more