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Counting on Grace / Elizabeth Winthrop.

Author: Winthrop, Elizabeth.

Imprint:New York : Wendy Lamb Books, c2006.

Description:232 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Note:It's 1910 in Pownal, Vermont. At 12 Grace and her best friend Arthur must go to work in the mill, helping their mothers work the looms. Together Grace and Arthur write a secret letter to the Child Labor Board about underage children working in the mill. A few weeks later, Lewis Hine, a famous reformer arrives undercover to gather evidence. Grace meets him and appears in some of his photographs, changing her life forever.

Audience:008-012.

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