Counting on Grace by Elizabeth Winthrop

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Counting on Grace by Elizabeth Winthrop

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.

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Elizabeth Winthrop is the author of nearly sixty books for children and adults. The Castle in the Attic, Dumpy La Rue, drawn by Betsy Lewin, and Shoes, illustrated by William Joyce are among her award-winning children's books. Robert Stone chose her short story The Golden Darters for The Best American Short Stories. She wrote the memoir piece Don't Knock Unless You're Bleeding: Growing Up in Cold War Washington under the name Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop. She splits her time between New York City and the Berkshires, as the daughter of political journalist Stewart Alsop. Elizabeth Winthrop's website is www.elizabethwinthrop.com.

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ISBN 13 9780553487831
ISBN 10 0553487833
Title Counting on Grace
Author Elizabeth Winthrop
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Random House USA Inc
Year published 2007-08-14
Number of pages 240
Prizes Winner of ALA Notable Children's Book 2007, Winner of IRA CBC Children's Choice 2007, Winner of NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2007, Nominated for Kentucky Bluegrass Award 2007, Nominated for Vermont Dorothy Canfield Fischer Book Award 2007
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.