# The Hired Girl

**Author:** Laura Amy Schlitz
**Grade range:** Grades 7–12
**First published:** 2015
**Page count:** 401
**ISBN-13:** `9780763679439`
**ISBN-10:** `0763679437`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-hired-girl
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Winner of the 2016 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction A 2016 Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Award Winner Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz brings her delicious wit and keen eye to early twentieth-century America in a moving yet comedic tour de force. 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 w

## Where this book is assigned

### Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction

- **recommended** · 7th grade — [source: Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction winners, via Wikipedia — 2016 Scott O'Dell Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_O%27Dell_Award_for_Historical_Fiction)
- **recommended** · 8th grade — [source: Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction winners, via Wikipedia — 2016 Scott O'Dell Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_O%27Dell_Award_for_Historical_Fiction)
- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction winners, via Wikipedia — 2016 Scott O'Dell Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_O%27Dell_Award_for_Historical_Fiction)
- **recommended** · 10th grade — [source: Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction winners, via Wikipedia — 2016 Scott O'Dell Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_O%27Dell_Award_for_Historical_Fiction)
- **recommended** · 11th grade — [source: Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction winners, via Wikipedia — 2016 Scott O'Dell Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_O%27Dell_Award_for_Historical_Fiction)
- **recommended** · 12th grade — [source: Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction winners, via Wikipedia — 2016 Scott O'Dell Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_O%27Dell_Award_for_Historical_Fiction)

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