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Author Paterson, Katherine.

Title Lyddie / Katherine Paterson
Edition First trade paperback edition
Published New York, N.Y. : Puffin Books, 1992
©1991

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Description 182 pages ; 18 cm
regular print
Series Puffin modern classics
Puffin modern classics.
Contents 1 Bear -- 2 Kindly Friends -- 3 Cutler's Tavern -- 4 Frog in a Butter Churn -- 5 Going Home -- 6 Ezekial -- 7 South to Freedom -- 8 Number Five, Concord Corporation -- 9 Weaving Room -- 10 Oliver -- 11 Admirable Choice -- 12 I Will Not Be a Slave -- 13 Speed Up -- 14 Ills and Petitions -- 15 Rachel -- 16 Fever -- 17 Doffer -- 18 Charlie at Last -- 19 Diana -- 20 B Is for Brigid -- 21 Turpitude -- 22 Farewell -- 23 Vermont, November 1846
Summary Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s
Analysis English fiction
United States
Notes First published: Lodestar Books, 1991
Audience Young Adult
Notes ALA Notable Book; ALA Best Book for Young Adults; American Bookseller "Pick of the Lists"; Booklist Editor's Choice; School Library Journal Best Book of 1991; Parents magazine Best Book--Cover
Subject Child labor -- Juvenile fiction.
Child labor -- Massachusetts -- Lowell -- History -- Juvenile fiction.
Factories -- Juvenile fiction.
Factories -- Massachusetts -- Lowell -- History -- Juvenile fiction.
Self-reliance -- Fiction.
Self-reliance -- Juvenile fiction.
Textile factories -- Juvenile fiction.
Textile workers -- Fiction.
Textile workers -- Juvenile fiction.
Textile workers -- Massachusetts -- Lowell -- History -- Juvenile fiction.
Factories -- Fiction.
Women textile workers -- Massachusetts -- Lowell -- History -- Juvenile fiction.
Work -- Fiction.
Work -- Juvenile fiction.
Factories -- Fiction.
Self-reliance -- Fiction.
Textile workers -- Fiction.
Work -- Fiction.
SUBJECT Lowell (Mass.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79027238 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
Lowell (Mass.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79027238 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687
Lowell (Mass.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79027238 -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687
Lowell (Mass.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79027238 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
Genre/Form Fiction.
LC no. 92020304
ISBN 0140349812