{"product_id":"the-hired-girl-1","title":"Laura Amy Schlitz: The Hired Girl [2016] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNewbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz brings her delicious wit and keen eye to early twentieth-century America in a moving yet comedic tour de force.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA humorous coming-of-age story that will appeal to fans of \u003ci\u003eAnne of Green Gables\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLittle Women\u003c\/i\u003e. Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, 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 remote 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 girl could only dream of - a woman with a future. Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz relates Joan's journey from the muck of the chicken coop to the comforts of a society household in Baltimore (Electricity! Carpet sweepers! Sending out the laundry!), taking readers on an exploration of feminism and housework; religion and literature; love and loyalty; cats, hats and bunions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schlitz, Laura Amy","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":48002240905555,"sku":"XG81406365931","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"New","offer_id":44430020772130,"sku":"9781406365931","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/schlitz-laura-amy-laura-amy-schlitz-the-hired-girl-2016-paperback-55453018161491.jpg?v=1727051164","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/the-hired-girl-1","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}