Lyddie

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Lyddie
Author: Patterson, Katherine
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Time Period: Industrial Age
Time Frame: 1843-1846
Geographic Area: North America
Country: United States
Topics: Mill Girls
Genre: Fiction
Reading Age: Upper Middle Grade
Format: Chapter Book
Published: 1995


American History > Industrial Age

From two-time Newbery award-winning author Katherine Paterson.

When Lyddie and her younger brother are hired out as servants to help pay off their family farm's debts, Lyddie is determined to find a way to reunite her family once again. Hearing about all the money a girl can make working in the textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, she makes her way there, only to find that her dreams of returning home may never come true.

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