Counting on Grace
Published on 18. December 2008
240 pages
978-0-307-51822-4 (ISBN)
Description
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
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Person
Elizabeth Winthrop is the highly acclaimed author of more than sixty books for children of all ages. She is the daughter of famed journalist and political analyst Stewart Alsop, and the great-grandniece of Theodore Roosevelt. Her works include Counting on Grace, The Castle in the Attic, and The Battle for the Castle.
Content
- Intro
- Other Books By This Author
- Title Page
- Chapter 1 - School
- Chapter 2 - The Trapper's Shack
- Chapter 3 - A Knocking at the Door
- Chapter 4 - The Story of the Cotton
- Chapter 5 - My Papers
- Chapter 6 - Doffing
- Chapter 7 - Arthur Speaks to Me
- Chapter 8 - French Johnny and Miss Lesley
- Chapter 9 - Sunday
- Chapter 10 - The Letter
- Chapter 11 - The Frames
- Chapter 12 - No Sausage
- Chapter 13 - Ropes
- Chapter 14 - The Train
- Chapter 15 - School on Sundays
- Chapter 16 - The Stranger
- Chapter 17 - The Flash
- Chapter 18 - The Group Picture
- Chapter 19 - Up the Hill
- Chapter 20 - Dinner
- Chapter 21 - The Ghost Girl
- Chapter 22 - Gone
- Chapter 23 - Arthur
- Chapter 24 - The Wound
- Chapter 25 - Teacher
- Chapter 26 - Mail for Grace
- Chapter 27 - Monsieur Dupree
- Chapter 28 - Troubles
- Chapter 29 - Goodbye
- Chapter 30 - Miss Lesley
- Chapter 31 - The Smock
- Chapter 32 - Across the Border
- Chapter 33 - First Day
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright
