Lyddie (Puffin Modern Classics)

Description:

Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.

subjects: Textile workers,  Factories,  Juvenile fiction,  Work,  Self-reliance,  Fiction,  Weaving,  Textile factories,  Large type books,  Children's fiction,  Girls, fiction,  Work, fiction,  Massachusetts, fiction,  Children, fiction,  Friendship, fiction,  Fiction, historical, general,  Slavery,  Fugitive slaves,  African Americans,  Identity (Philosophical concept),  Self-reliance, fiction,  Self-esteem, fiction

Places: Lowell,  Lowell (Mass.),  Massachusetts,  Vermont