Lyddie
By Katherine Paterson
(Puffin, Paperback, 9780140373899, 192pp.)
Publication Date: January 1995
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback
Categories: Historical - United States - 19th Century
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Description
When Lyddie and her younger brother are hired out as servants to help pay off their family farm's debts, Lyddie is determined to find a way to reunite her family once again. Hearing about all the money a girl can make working in the textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, she makes her way there, only to find that her dreams of returning home may never come true.











