Lyddie PMC 3.99 Promo (Puffin Modern Classics)

Author - Katherine Paterson ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Paperback Book item from Puffin was reviewed on 3-Nov-2008.

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1) Paperback Book Lyddie PMC 3.99 Promo (Puffin Modern Classics) by Puffin. When thirteen-year-old Lyddie Worthen´s mother sends her and her ten-year-old brother Charlie off to be servants, Lyddie feels it´s the end of her world.

Throughout her life, Lyddie´s been no stranger to hard work. Ever since their father left three years earlier, Mrs. Worthen´s been a little off -- and it´s been up to Lyddie, the eldest, to take care of Charlie, their two baby sisters and their Vermont farm. But then, at least, Lyddie was able to be her own boss, living on their own land. Now, she has to do everyone´s bidding at a tavern, hoping the boss will even remember to send her mother the tiny weekly salary she owes.

Then circumstances change once again, and Lyddie finds herself a mill worker in Lowell, MA. Along with thousands of other girls, she lives in corporation housing and works long hours tending looms in the mill under dangerous and unhealthy conditions. Despite it all, Lyddie succeeds, largely because she keeps dreaming about earning enough money to reunite her family one day.

While almost entirely driven in her personal mission, Lyddie also becomes more aware of the terrible conditions the girls are forced to endure, and the need to do something about them -- causing her to grow and mature as an individual, as well.

An engrossing read, this book is also an excellent work of historical fiction, giving readers a clear picture of life in the Lowell mills during the 1840s.¤

2) Paperback Book Lyddie PMC 3.99 Promo (Puffin Modern Classics) by Puffin. Lyddie is a very poor farm girl who has a crazed mother who believes everything to be a bad sign. Her and her brother Charlie are very close and will do anything for each other. When a bear intrudes on the family Lyddie´s mother takes it as a bad sign. She takes her youngest children to her sisters house and leaves Charlie and lyddie to take care of the farm. They end up surviving the winter only to find out their mother has found separate jobs for them. The children reluctantly leave each other as they set out for their jobs. Lyddie is to work in a inn where she gets payed about fifty cents a week. While working at the inn Lyddie gets her chance to change her life. Lyddie goes to work at a factory. Lyddie is known as "close to her money and her friendships" but you will never learn of someone who works harder.

Lyddie finally learns there are many things wrong with the world then and are still major problems today. First, that women are not treated equally. She goes through what seems like a very long journey to learn all the lessons that she ends up learning in this book. I liked this book a lot. It taught me how to react to different things and that we should give everyone a chance no matter what race or religion they are. This book gave me a perspective which I couldn´t see before and it wasn´t a really big change I saw once I had read it but it did effect me when I saw what men thought of women back then. I think people should read this book just because it has an interesting plot line and can teach you different things you didn´t think you could learn from this kind of book.¤

3) Paperback Book Lyddie PMC 3.99 Promo (Puffin Modern Classics) by Puffin. For students in the middle grades or higher, Lyddie is a great read. It is a valuable resource for a social studies unit on slavery, the industrial revolution, the labor movement, yellow fever, or child labor. Lyddie is a symbol of strength, determination, and freedom. Paterson has created a strong central character and even though so much history is going on around her, it is on Lyddie that we continually focus our attention. I highly recommend book; very inspiring.¤

4) Paperback Book Lyddie PMC 3.99 Promo (Puffin Modern Classics) by Puffin. Paterson doesn´t miss with this great historical fiction about a young girl´s struggles. This is a great girl adventure book about dashing hopes and the strength and will to endure at all costs. The portrait of Vermont farm life and Lowell Mill girls and workers rights during the 1800s is dead on. This is great read and a great teaching tool.¤

5) Paperback Book Lyddie PMC 3.99 Promo (Puffin Modern Classics) by Puffin. Lyddie, written by Catherine Patterson was a well-written book by an excellent author, but if you like happy fairy tales this is not the book for you. This is a historical fiction novel about a girl who is working in a factory, in order to raise money to help keep her family together. Her factory life is horrible yet she struggles onward in order to save her family. You get caught up in wanting to help her through. Somehow she works it out yet there is never complete happiness within her. I personally did not like this book very much because of the sadness and disappointments in Lyddie´s life. It was a very well written book as a whole though. If you enjoy historically accurate and heartfelt novels, I suggest you read this book.¤

6) Paperback Book Lyddie PMC 3.99 Promo (Puffin Modern Classics) by Puffin. Lyddie Worthen must decide whether to risk losing her job running a loom at a dusty Massachusetts factory--a job she has taken to earn enough money to reunite her family--by protesting the poor working conditions. Reprint. AB. SLJ. K. H. ¤

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