It's 1910 in Pownal, Vermont. At 12 Grace and her best friend Arthur must go to work in the mill, helping their mothers work the looms. Together Grace and Arthur write a secret letter to the Child Labor Board about underage children working in the mill. A few weeks later Lewis Hine, a famous reformer, arrives undercover to gather evidence.
Grades 5 and up.
Grades 5 and up.
31 comments:
This is an exceelent tale that gives the reader insight on the era of child labor. I met the author and she said that she got the idea for the book when she visited an old mill in Vermont. On the memorial stone at the mill, there was a picture of a girl working on one of the machines when the mill was still operating. This picture moved the author, and she wanted to find out more about this girl. So she investigated and then wrote this fictional story based on the real information she found.
This book gets a definite recommendation from me!
This book is an excellent mix of fiction and fact. As we follow Grace and Arthur, we understand just how difficult life was for children working in factories so far from their homes.
as i was reading this book i thought about how different life was for grace compared to life now a days!! :)
This book is made especially interesting by the point ofview that it's written in.
This book was great. Grace's story is so important to learn about. I felt like I was back in school with her, struggling to deal with all the diificulties of the time!
I think Counting on Grace is an awesome book so far and I would recommend it to all of you. I have not finished it yet but I hope I will soon.
I love this book my whole class read it for an assignment and they all enjoyed it. I had one student who walked around the room and read just like Grace!
I did not like this book
before reading this book I suggest you first read Kids at work. It talks about similar things in this book. It even has the picture that's on the cover.
I love this book it gives so much deatail
this book made me have nightmearers
I loved COUNTING ON GRACE.This book is so awesome if I was ELIZABETH WINTHDROP i would not tern down having this awesome book on tv.dk
My class has loved this book!
I really liked this book it was so good . It kept me very interested ,i didn't want to stop reading it . IT was very sad, thats what i didn't like about it
i love this book because how people acted and how it was placed in an old time. it would be horrible working in a mill but if you had to than you have to. i would recomend to anybody to read this book.
This book was good but I didn't like it. It was sad and a little to gross in some parts. I can see why that other kid had nightmares. I don't like this book at all.
we really liked this book. We enjoy history. At times we felt really bad for some of the characters. After we read this book we did a history project and alot of people would have done Grace if our teacher had let us. We thought it was interesting how she had gotten the idea to write this book. We enjoyed listening to the information about the real Grace.
i TRIED READING THE BOOK... IT WAS TOO HARD!
(HINT HINT I'M IN 4TH GRADE)
MY SISTER READ IT... SHE'S IN 7th GRADE!!!
I think that COUNTING ON GRACE is a very good book if you like books about what life was like living in the mills,however living in the mills is very unsafe for anyone! It is very scary.
This book is a great book.
This book was very good and I would sggest it to others! if you do read it watch out for the surprises!
this book is very lovely and it shows some turning points in our history. Arthur is very intlligent and foolish and will always read. it is very lovely
I think this book was great. I realy liked how the author used her words and I liked how the chapters were kind of short.
Counting on Grace is a good book because it tells how the kids used to work. They worked when they where 8 years old. It was a dangerous.
Counting on grace is a great book.The only thing I didn't like was I couldn't picture it very well.
I thought counting on grace was an ok book. It was kinda exciting. WOW
this book wuz ok it was kinda boring in parts but fun in others and it really makes you think how bad it would be to live back then
it was a asum book
this was a cool book.
this book was cool.
I didnt care to much for the book but i have read the castle in the attic as a author study in our reading class. I think it is amazing elizabeth winthrop uses good details and makes stuff really interesting
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