Hetty Feather

From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess

Counting on Grace

The Lotterys Plus One

The Land of Forgotten Girls

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Real-Life Tales of Black Girl Magic

The Willoughbys Return

Witness

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.

Discover Your Child's Next Read

Hetty Feather

Nick Sharratt, Jacqueline Wilson, 2009

From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess

Meg Cabot, 2015

Counting on Grace

Elizabeth Winthrop, 2006

The Lotterys Plus One

Emma Donoghue, Caroline Hadilaksono, 2017

The Land of Forgotten Girls

Erin Entrada Kelly, 2016

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Real-Life Tales of Black Girl Magic

Lilly Workneh, CaShawn Thompson, Diana Odero, 2021

The Willoughbys Return

Lois Lowry, 2020

Witness

Karen Hesse, 2000