Counting on Grace

Title: Counting on Grace Author: Elizabeth Winthrop ISBN: 9780553487831 Publisher: Yearling Published: 2007 Binding: Paperback Language: English Number of Pages: 240 Section: Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 20th Century Publisher Description: 1910. Pownal, Vermont. At 12, Grace and her best friend Arthur must leave school and go to work as a "doffers" on their mothers' looms in the mill. Grace's mother is the best worker, fast and powerful, and Grace desperately wants to help her. But she's left handed and doffing is a right-handed job. Grace's every mistake costs her mother, and the family. She only feels capable on Sundays, when she and Arthur receive special lessons from their teacher. Together they write a secret letter to the Child Labor Board about underage children working in Pownal. A few weeks later a man with a camera shows up. It is the famous reformer Lewis Hine,