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Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.
Author Notes
Katherine Paterson was born in Qing Jiang, Jiangsu, China in 1932. She attended King College in Bristol, Tennessee and then graduate school in Virginia where she studied Bible and Christian education.
Before going to graduate school, she was a teacher for one year and after graduate school, she moved to Japan to be a missionary.
Her first book, Sign of the Chrysanthemum was published in 1991. Other titles to follow included The Bridge to Terabithia and Jacod Have I Loved which both won her a Newbery Award, The Great Gilly Hopkins, Lyddie and The Master Puppeteer.
In addition to the Newbery Award, she is the recipient of numerous others including the Scott O'Dell Award, the National Book Award for Children's Literature, the American Book Award, the American Library Association's Best Books for Young Adults Award and the New York Times Outstanding Books of the Year Award. She was also honored with the Hans Christian Anderson Award.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (4)
School Library Journal Review
Gr 5-9--Laboring in an 1840s Massachusetts mill, young Lyddie endures vile working conditions, loneliness, illness, and inequality, yet experiences an intellectual and spiritual awakening that allows her to confront her own potential. Strong characterization and a solid sense of time and place. (Feb. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
Fourteen-year-old Lyddie sets out on her own when her family is split apart by debt. PW found this story, set in 1844, ``impeccably researched and expertly crafted.'' Ages 10-14. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Horn Book Review
Rich in historical detail, with characters who emerge to become real people, this story set in the mid-nineteenth-century encompasses three years in the life of Lyddie Worthen, a young Vermont farm girl who goes to work in the factories of Lowell, Massachusetts. A superb story of grit, determination, and personal growth. From HORN BOOK 1991, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
Abandoned by their mother, whose mental stability has been crumbling since her husband went west, Lyddie and her brother Charlie manage alone through a Vermont winter. But in the spring of 1844, without consulting them, the mother apprentices Charlie to a miller and hires Lyddie out to a tavern, where she is little better than a slave. Still, Lyddie is strong and indomitable, and the cook is friendly even if the mistress is cold and stern; Lyddie manages well enough until a run-in with the mistress sends her south to work in the mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, thus earning a better wage (in a vain hope of saving the family farm), making friends among the other girls enduring the long hours and dangerous conditions, and expanding her understanding of loyalty, generosity, and injustice (she already knows more than most people ever learn about perseverance). Knowing only her own troubled family, Lyddie is unusually reserved, even for a New Englander, With her usual discernment and consummate skill, Paterson depicts her gradually turning toward the warmth of others' kindnesses--Betsy reads Oliver Twist aloud and suggests the ultimate goal of Oberlin College; Diana teaches Lyddie to cope in the mill, setting an example that Lyddie later follows with an Irish girl who is even more naive than she had been; Quaker neighbors offer help and solace that Lyddie at first rejects out of hand. Deftly plotted and rich in incident, a well-researched picture of the period--and a memorable portrait of an untutored but intelligent young woman making her way against fierce odds. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Table of Contents
| 1 The Bear | p. 1 |
| 2 Kindly Friends | p. 10 |
| 3 Cutler's Tavern | p. 18 |
| 4 Frog in a Butter Churn | p. 27 |
| 5 Going Home | p. 35 |
| 6 Ezekial | p. 39 |
| 7 South to Freedom | p. 46 |
| 8 Number Five, Concord Corporation | p. 52 |
| 9 The Weaving Room | p. 62 |
| 10 Oliver | p. 74 |
| 11 The Admirable Choice | p. 79 |
| 12 I Will Not Be a Slave | p. 86 |
| 13 Speed Up | p. 94 |
| 14 Ills and Petitions | p. 106 |
| 15 Rachel | p. 117 |
| 16 Fever | p. 127 |
| 17 Doffer | p. 131 |
| 18 Charlie at Last | p. 141 |
| 19 Diana | p. 148 |
| 20 B Is for Brigid | p. 155 |
| 21 Turpitude | p. 162 |
| 22 Farewell | p. 169 |
| 23 Vermont, November 1846 | p. 177 |