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Counting on Grace /
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| Author |
Winthrop, Elizabeth.
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| Call Number |
jFIC WIN |
| Publisher |
New York : Wendy Lamb Books, |
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Subject
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Child labor -- Fiction.
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Cotton manufacture -- Fiction.
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Friendship -- Fiction.
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Juvenile literature.
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Pownal (Vt.) -- Fiction.
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| Title Statement |
Counting on Grace / Elizabeth Winthrop. |
| Description |
232 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Target Audience |
008-012. |
| Summary |
It's 1910 in Pownal, Vermont. At 12 Grace and her best friend Arthur must go to work in the mill, helping their mothers work the looms. Together Grace and Arthur write a secret letter to the Child Labor Board about underage children working in the mill. A few weeks later, Lewis Hine, a famous reformer arrives undercover to gather evidence. Grace meets him and appears in some of his photographs, changing her life forever. |
| Awards Notes |
Young Hoosier Book Award, 2009-2010, 4-6 Nominee. |
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A Junior Library Guild selection. |
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(IMCPL) – Summer Reading Program Bonus Books & Materials 2008. |
| ISBN |
0385908784 (lib. bdg.) |
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038574644X (hardcover) : |
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9780553487831 (pbk.) |
| Hold Requests |
0 |
| Bib No. |
1049958 |