An ALA Notable Book
An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
A Booklist Editor’s Choice
American Bookseller “Pick of the Lists”
School Library Journal Best Book
From two-time Newbery Award - winning author Katherine Paterson.
When Lyddie and her younger brother are hired out as servants to help pay off their family farm’s debts, Lyddie is determined to find a way to reunite her family once again. Hearing about all the money a girl can make working in the textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, she makes her way there, only to find that her dreams of returning home may never come true.