Lyddie online book6/7/2023 The workers are exploited by the owners and bosses and those who agitate are dealt with harshly. The life in the Lowell mills is extremely regulated. The remainder of the book is set in and around the mills with their exploitation and paternal regulation of the workers. Lyddie is hired out to a tavern where, after observing the apparently successful life of a young female textile factory worker, she decides to go to the factories at Lowell, Massachusetts. Charlie, accepted into the family he was hired out to, does well. Her mother, crazed by her obsession with an End-of-the-World religion, rents the farm and hires out Charlie (10) and Lyddie (13) into a kind of bondage. Her father left the farm to earn money, but has not been heard from since. In 1843, Lyddie Worthen, an impoverished Vermont farm girl, is determined to gain her independence (and money to pay off the debts of the farm). Paterson's ability to portray a different time and place through believable and likeable characters will not be disappointed in this book for sixth graders and up.
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