Lyddie (Puffin Books)

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Genre: Historical fiction; Textile workers; Fiction; Children's 12-Up - Fiction - History; Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9); Work; Historical - United States - 19th Century; Juvenile Fiction / Historical / General; Factories; Self-reliance;

Average Review: 4 stars

Review: Lyddie- a review by Kelsey : 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.