Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village

Splendors and Glooms

Hetty Feather

The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place

We Played With Fire

From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess

What Happened to Goodbye

Yes No Maybe So

Today Miss Chandler gave me this beautiful book. I vow that I will never forget her kindness to me, and I will use this book as she told me to—that I will write in it with truth and refinement…But who could be refined living at Steeple Farm?

Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself—because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm girl could only dream of—a woman with a future.

Inspired by her grandmother’s journal, Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz brings her sharp wit and keen eye to early twentieth-century America in a comedic tour de force destined to become a modern classic. Joan’s journey from the muck of the chicken coop to the comforts of a society household in Baltimore (Electricity! Carpet sweepers! Sending out the laundry!) takes its reader on an exploration of feminism and housework, religion and literature, love and loyalty, cats, hats, bunions, and burns.

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Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village

Laura Amy Schlitz, Robert Byrd, 2007

Splendors and Glooms

Laura Amy Schlitz, 2012

Hetty Feather

Nick Sharratt, Jacqueline Wilson, 2009

The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place

E.L. Konigsburg, 2004

We Played With Fire

Catherine Barter, 2021

From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess

Meg Cabot, 2015

What Happened to Goodbye

Sarah Dessen, 2011

Yes No Maybe So

Aisha Saeed, Becky Albertalli, Charise Mericle Harper, 2004