Recommended to me by a student. A story about a young girl determined to provide for her family. She learns a lot as she works with the machines in the factory. She is also not spared heartache throughout.
I enjoyed listening to this novel about a young woman forced to move out into the world and make her way in 1840s New England. The characters are somewhat overly simplistic but not ridiculously so, and the story itself is engaging. The novel also ended at the right time in that it stopped before I grew bored and at a point where I really wanted to know what happened next.
(This is a title from the Build Your Library Level 5 curriculum booklist.)