The story is a fictionalization of what the life of one of Hines' subjects may have been like. " A nice book based on the real-life photographer, Lewis Hines, who brought America the face of child labor at the turn of the century. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.A true tribute to the working people and immigrants who contributed to this country's growth and success." Her teacher, a child advocate who brought Hine to the mill to photograph them beside the dangerous machines, eventually convinces her that through education she can achieve a better life. She is caught between trying to do right by her family and continue the tradition of mill work and realizing that their is a world and future beyond the mill. Grace is a dazzling and resilient narrator, trying to survive the poverty in her French-Canadian village and family while still clinging to a future when she will be liberated from mill work. This book also provided a pleasantly surprising homage to documentary photographer Lewis Hine and his work. "A wonderfully researched and extremely moving and vivid (fictionalized) account of life in the Vermont textile mills in the early 1900s. Grace’s brief acquaintance with Hine and the photos he takes of her are a gift that changes her sense of herself, her future, and her family’s future. It is the famous reformer Lewis Hine, undercover, collecting evidence for the Child Labor Board. A few weeks later a man with a camera shows up. Together they write a secret letter to the Child Labor Board about underage children working in Pownal. She only feels capable on Sundays, when she and Arthur receive special lessons from their teacher.
Grace’s every mistake costs her mother, and the family.
But she’s left handed and doffing is a right-handed job. Grace’s mother is the best worker, fast and powerful, and Grace desperately wants to help her. At 12, Grace and her best friend Arthur must leave school and go to work as a “doffers” on their mothers’ looms in the mill. BONUS FEATURES: Exclusive author interview and a profile of Lewis Hine! 1910.
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