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Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz brings her delicious wit and keen eye to early twentieth-century America in a moving yet comedic tour de force. Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself-because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm girl could only dream of-a woman with a future. Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz relates Joan's journey from the muck of the chicken coop to the comforts of a society household in Baltimore (Electricity! Carpet sweepers! Sending out the laundry!), taking readers on an exploration of housework and literature; love and loyalty; cats, hats, and bunions.
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About Laura Amy Schlitz
Laura Amy Schlitz is the author of the Newbery Medal winner Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village; the Newbery Honor Book and bestseller Splendors and Glooms; the Scott O’Dell Award winner The Hired Girl; the chapter book The Night Fairy; and other critically acclaimed books for young readers. She is a teacher as well as a writer in Maryland.
About the Narrators
Rachel Botchan holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and is a member of the Pearl Theater Company in New York. She and her husband live in New York City.
Tom Picasso is a voice over artist, actor, and singer originally from Kansas City. He is currently the voice of COZI TV, a new cable channel from NBCUniversal that premiered in January 2013 where he records all their ads and tags for the network. He can also be heard on the audiobooks for Hal Clement’s Ocean on Top and Ardath Mayhar's YA novel The Door in the Hill. He holds an MFA in Acting from the Case Western University/Cleveland Play House and has appeared in numerous shows off-broadway and regionally.