Friday, September 26th, 2008...3:27 pm
Counting on Grace by Elizabeth Winthrop
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Twelve-year-old Grace Forcier and her friend Arthur, taken out of school and put to work in a Vermont textile mill in 1910, are championed by their teacher who urges them to write the National Child Labor Committee, an action only Grace seems to realize will have serious repercussions.
If you like historical fiction, you’ll like this one. Read Paterson’s Lyddie to get another look at child labor in the early 1900’s.
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October 22nd, 2008 at 2:40 pm
I loved Counting on Grace. Working in the mills must have been so hard, it truly reached out to me how hard it was back then .
October 27th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Becka,
I agree with you! Can you imagine how hard it was to do something new with your non-dominate hand?
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