The Hired Girl
by Schlitz, Laura Amy
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AR Book Level
5.7
AR Points
18
Word Count
115,564
Interest Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
229385 EN
About this book
Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs lives on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania but yearns for real life and true love. Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself.