The hired girl
Histoire (romans)
Audio avec voix humaine
Résumé
Ever since the untimely death of her mother, 14 year-old Joan Skraggs has been desperately unhappy. Under the thumb of her cruel father and three sullen brothers, Joan lives like a servant on their farm just outside of Lancaster, forever… cooking, cleaning, and attending to the many demands of the home. She has little freedom, and less support from her family for her love of reading and blossoming interest in education. When her father tells Joan she can't go to school anymore, it sets off a journey that will see her become first a runaway, then a hired girl on $6 a week, and finally her very own young woman. Set in America during the years before the First World War. Grades 5-8. 2015.