The Hired Girl
Teen fiction
Diary fiction
Women household employees
Household employees
Pennsylvania, fiction
Diaries, fiction
Farm life, fiction
Juvenile audience
Juvenile works
Farm life
Teenage girls
Young adult fiction
Diaries
Historical fiction
Authorship
New York Times bestseller
New York Times reviewed
Children's fiction
Juvenile fiction
History
Fiction
Ever since the untimely death of her mother, 14 year-old Joan Skraggs has been desperately unhappy. Under the thumb of her cruel father and three sullen brothers, Joan lives like a servant on their farm just outside of Lancaster, forever cooking, cleaning, and attending to the many demands of the ho…
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