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The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz
Joan Skraggs is a heroine who siezes her destiny with both hands. At the beginning of the story, set in 1911, Joan’s mother has been dead for three years. Joan believes that her mother, a delicate woman, died of overwork on the farm. Joan has a sense that if she, too, remains on the farm, […]