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Counting on Grace [cd] : a novel / Elizabeth Winthrop. |
| Authors: | Winthrop, Elizabeth. |
| Call number: | jCD FIC WIN |
| Publisher: | New York : Listening Library, p2006. |
| Publication date: | p2006. |
| Subject: |
Child labor -- Fiction.
Cotton manufacture -- Fiction. Friendship -- Fiction. Reformers -- Fiction. Pownal (Vt.) -- Fiction. Children's audiobooks. Juvenile sound recordings. Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940 -- Fiction. Winthrop, Elizabeth -- Interviews. |
| Title: | Counting on Grace [cd] : a novel / Elizabeth Winthrop. |
| Physical description: | 5 sound discs (5 hr., 46 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Performer note: | Read by Lili Gamache. |
| Target audience note: | Ages 8-12. |
| Notes: | Unabridged. Compact discs; digital recording. |
| Summary note: | It's 1910 in Pownal, Vermont. At twelve, Grace and her best friend Arthur must go to work in the mill, helping their mothers work the looms. With the help of their teacher, Grace and Arthur write a secret letter to the National Child Labor Committee about underage children working in the mill. A few weeks later, Lewis Hine, a famous reformer, arrives to gather evidence, and Grace becomes his secret ally. |
| With note: | With: Interview with the author & profile of Lewis Hine. |
| Awards note: | Young Hoosier Book Award, 2009-2010, 4-6 Nominee. |
| Genre: | Audiobooks. |
| Added author: | Gamache, Lili. |
| ISBN: | 0739348647 9780739348642 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1161139 |
| Bib No.: | 1161139 |