Winthrop, Elizabeth.

Counting on Grace / Elizabeth Winthrop. - New York : Wendy Lamb Books, c2006. - 232 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

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.

008-012.

A Junior Library Guild selection.

ISBN: 0385908784 (lib. bdg.) 038574644X (hardcover) : $15.95

Source: Junior Library Guild http://www.juniorlibraryguild.com

Subjects--Personal Names:
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940 --Fiction.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Child labor--Fiction.
Cotton manufacture--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Pownal (Vt.)--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.W768 / Cou 2006

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]