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Author Winthrop, Elizabeth.

Title Counting on Grace / Elizabeth Winthrop.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Wendy Lamb Books, c2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Nettels Fiction  F WINTHROP    ---  Available
 PCMS Historical Fiction  F WINTHROP    ---  Available
Description 232 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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.
Audience 008-012.
Study Program ACCELERATED READER MG RL 4.5 8.0 GNET
Awards A Junior Library Guild selection.
Subject Child labor -- Fiction.
Cotton manufacture -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Child labor -- Juvenile fiction.
Cotton manufacture -- Juvenile fiction.
Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.
Pownal (Vt.) -- Juvenile fiction.
Pownal (Vt.) -- Fiction.
ISBN 0385908784 (lib. bdg.)

 
    
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