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Title: Lyddie by Katherine Paterson ISBN: 0140349812 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: December, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.38
Rating: 4
Summary: A fun book!
Comment: ~Lyddie Worthen~{!/~}s parents are not with her, and her brother and sisters sent to live with other people. Lyddie works hard try to pay off her family~{!/~}s debt. First she works at Cutler~{!/~}s Tavern. When she hears about the mill jobs in Lowell, Massachusetts, she also hears she can make good money of it. So she becomes a factory girl. Lyddie learns to read and learns to deal with all kinds of things happen in her life. The working conditions begin to affect her friend~{!/~}s health; she~~ has to make a choice. Through her struggle in the tough world, she understands how to live on her own.Everyone is his or her free labor. No matter whom they work for, they have the rights to improve their working conditions, especially when nobody can work under bad conditions. Everyone is his or her free labor. No matter whom they work for, they have the rights to improve their working conditions, especially when nobody can work under bad conditions.~
Rating: 5
Summary: This is a book you want to read!
Comment: Katherine Patterson's Lyddie is a book that paints a picture for the reader of what life during the 1800's was like for a young female. Lyddie, the main character, exhibits the struggles of a girl that takes on lots of responsibility as her family parts in different directions across the country. Her mother leaves Lyddie and her brother to tend to the farm, and then writes in a letter she has found jobs for them in other cities forcing them to leave the farm. Through the entire book, Lyddie remains strong and determined to bring her family back to the family farm. This book reminded me a lot of the Little House on the Prairie series. I used to read those books all the time when I was younger. Like Laura Ingalls Wilder, Katherine Patterson has a unique way of writing that makes text feel like real life.
Readers are pulled into this book through Katherine's words. Take for example the sentence in the seventh chapter, when the coach takes Lyddie to the city and gets stuck in the mud. "The men grunted and cursed below as their fancy breeches and overcoats turned brown with the mud and their lovely beaver hats went rolling off down the road" (49). Like this passage and many more, Katherine uses descriptive words allowing the readers to create a vibrant image in their head as they read.
Katherine Patterson also does an excellent job relating to the history of the time period. She writes of how women struggled with their rights and also how females were not given many choices of what they could do as a profession. This book provides a chance for readers to live a life in the past and experience the hardships.
Throughout this book, I was able to feel as though I was working in the various jobs Lyddie held, living in the boarding house with the other girls, and caring for the others that are special. Lyddie provided me with a chance to travel back in time and experience what she went through. I would highly recommend this book!
Rating: 5
Summary: Lyddie
Comment: I loved this book. It's about a 13 year old girl who is the true knot of the family, keeping everything tied together. But when a bear comes into their harsh cabin in the Vermont hills, Lyddie's mother thinks its a sign of the devil and takes the little children to her sister's farm. Lyddie and her brother try to keep the farm together, but then they are hired out by their unstable mother to pay the debts against their father before he left. When Lyddie is fired from her job her mother sent her too, she goes to Lowell to find work. She then sees her account start to grow and thinks she can keep the family together. If you'll read this book, you'll find the ending.
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Title: Flip-Flop Girl by Katherine Paterson ISBN: 0140376798 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: February, 1996 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Dragonwings : Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1903 by Laurence Yep ISBN: 0064400859 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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