Counting on Grace

Author: Winthrop, Elizabeth

Brand: Yearling

Color: Multicolor

Edition: Illustrated

Binding: paperback

Format: Illustrated

Number Of Pages: 240

Release Date: 14-08-2007

model number: FBA-|280546

Part Number: FBA-|280546

Details: 1910. Pownal, Vermont. At 12, Grace and her best friend Arthur must leave school and go to work as a “doffers” on their mothers’ looms in the mill. Grace’s mother is the best worker, fast and powerful, and Grace desperately wants to help her. But she’s left handed and doffing is a right-handed job. Grace’s every mistake costs her mother, and the family. She only feels capable on Sundays, when she and Arthur receive special lessons from their teacher. Together they write a secret letter to the Child Labor Board about underage children working in Pownal. A few weeks later a man with a camera shows up. It is the famous reformer Lewis Hine, undercover, collecting evidence for the Child Labor Board. Grace’s brief acquaintance with Hine and the photos he takes of her are a gift that changes her sense of herself, her future, and her family’s future.

EAN: 9780553487831

Package Dimensions: 8.0 x 7.6 x 0.3 inches

Languages: English