Counting on Grace
by Elizabeth Winthrop
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Author: Elizabeth WinthropEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-08-14
ISBN: 0553487833
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Yearling
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Book Review: one of the best young adult novels I've ever read: beautiful, powerful, utter delight
Summary: 5 Stars
Twelve-year-old Grace, daughter of immigrant parents from Canada, is a bouncing, energetic, vivacious rural Vermonter. Grace is torn between her teacher's desire for her to make a better life through education and her mother's desire for her to work in the mills to support her family. Highly intelligent Grace is eager to grow up and go to work, but discovers that, being left handed, she is less capable than the other workers. One day, Lewis Hine, a photographer, comes to secretly investigate the mill and takes Grace's picture. This fantastically well-written book (completely in Grace's voice) is one of the best young adult novels I've ever read. Grace's world is very real, from the detailed descriptions of the mill to the characters that surround her and determine her destiny. The historical tale (set in 1910) makes us, as Lewis Hine's photographs do, look directly into the eyes of the child labor issue. Grace, in her excitement and need to work in the mills to provide for her family, but her even deeper need to do more with her life. Grace--as all young teenagers do--must face her domineering mother's expectations for her life and to become her own person. A beautiful, funny, clever, well-characterized, poignant, and powerful novel. Grade: A
Summary of Counting on Grace
1910. Pownal, Vermont. At 12, Grace and her best friend Arthur must leave school and go to work as a ?doffers? on their mothers? looms in the mill. Grace?s mother is the best worker, fast and powerful, and Grace desperately wants to help her. But she?s left handed and doffing is a right-handed job. Grace?s every mistake costs her mother, and the family. She only feels capable on Sundays, when she and Arthur receive special lessons from their teacher. Together they write a secret letter to the Child Labor Board about underage children working in Pownal. A few weeks later a man with a camera shows up. It is the famous reformer Lewis Hine, undercover, collecting evidence for the Child Labor Board. Grace?s brief acquaintance with Hine and the photos he takes of her are a gift that changes her sense of herself, her future, and her family?s future.From the Hardcover edition.
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