This is marketed as a youth/older child’s book. Oh how I loved this book. I took it out of our local library after a teen told me she thought I would love it. I did. It’s main character reminds me of my favorites Jane Eyre and Anne Shirley. It also makes you or reminds you of reading little women. I highly recommend this for anyone 12-100. It’s a really sweet, fun, laugh, cry book.
Book Description
Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself—because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm girl could only dream of—a woman with a future.
I plan to buy my own copy. Go check it out at your local library you will not be sorry.
Book On,
Peace.
