{"product_id":"the-hired-girl","title":"Laura Schiltz: The Hired Girl [2016] hardback","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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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":"Schiltz, Laura","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44429816627490,"sku":"9781406361407","price":7.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/products\/schiltz-laura-the-hired-girl-9781406361407-40537367445794.jpg?v=1675882237","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/the-hired-girl","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}