Winthrop, Elizabeth.

Counting on Grace / Elizabeth Winthrop. - 1st Yearling ed. - New York : Wendy Lamb Books, 2007, c2006. - 232 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

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.

009-012.

A Junior Library Guild selection.

ISBN: 9780553487831 (pbk.) 0553487833 (pbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Child labor--Fiction.
Cotton manufacture--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Pownal (Vt.)--Fiction.