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by Katherine Paterson · Planeta Publishing · tapa blanda · 256 pages
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Lyddie, una joven de diez años, y su hermano menor son contratados como sirvientes para ayudar a pagar las deudas de la granja familiar. Lyddie está decidida a encontrar una manera de reunir a su familia una vez más. Al enterarse del dinero que una chica puede ganar trabajando en las fábricas textiles de Lowell, Massachusetts, se dirige allí, solo para descubrir que sus sueños de regresar a casa tal vez nunca se hagan realidad. Esta es una historia de determinación y crecimiento personal, rica en detalles históricos.

Katherine Paterson is an American writer best known for children's novels, including Bridge to Terabithia (1977), which won the Newbery Medal in 1978. For four different books published 1975–1980, she won two Newbery Medals and two National Book Awards. She is one of four people to win the two major international awards; for "lasting contribution to children's literature" she won the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing in 1998 and for her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" she won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council in 2006, the biggest monetary prize in children's literature. Also for her body of work she was awarded the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature in 2007 and the Children's Literature Legacy Award from the American Library Association in 2013. She was the second US National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, serving 2010 and 2011.