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Listen on Apple Books ↗Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love.
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But what hope is there for adventure, beauty or art on a remote farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself - because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm girl could only dream of - a woman with a future.
