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    Review: The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz

    by Kathleen July 27, 2016
    by Kathleen July 27, 2016

    In 1911, fourteen year-old Joan Skraggs finds herself trapped at home on a run-down farm, working tirelessly for her cruel father. He pulls her from school and requires her, โ€œan ox of a girlโ€ and โ€œuglyโ€ in his estimation, toย mend, …

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