Counting on Grace / Elizabeth Winthrop.
2006
PZ7.W768 Cou 2006 (Mapit)
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Title
Counting on Grace / Elizabeth Winthrop.
Author
ISBN
9780385908788
0385908784
9780385746441
038574644X
0385908784
9780385746441
038574644X
Publication Details
New York : Wendy Lamb Books, c2006.
Language
English
Description
232 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Call Number
PZ7.W768 Cou 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification
[Fic]
Summary
It's 1910 in Pownal, Vermont. At 12 Grace and her best friend Arthur must go to work in the mill, helping their mothers work the looms. Together Grace and Arthur write a secret letter to the Child Labor Board about underage children working in the mill. A few weeks later, Lewis Hine, a famous reformer arrives undercover to gather evidence. Grace meets him and appears in some of his photographs, changing her life forever.
Awards
Jane Addams Honor, 2007.
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