At first Raina isn’t sure about seeing a therapist, but over time she develops healthy coping mechanisms to deal with her stress and anxiety. She worries about sharing food with her friends and eating certain kinds of foods, afraid of getting sick or food poisoning. Raina begins having regular stomachaches that keep her home from school. Even a year later, when she is in fifth grade, she fears getting sick.
Young Raina is 9 when she throws up for the first time that she remembers, due to a stomach bug. (about Lewis Hine, the story behind the photograph, bibliography) (Historical fiction. Solid research and lively writing make this a fine historical novel, a perfect companion to Russell Freedman’s Kids at Work (1994). Readers familiar with Katherine Paterson’s Lyddie (1991) will see a kindred spirit in Grace Forcier. She vividly portrays mill life and four characters who resist its deadening effects. Inspired by a Hine photograph of a young Vermont mill girl, Winthrop has woven a fine story to complement Hine’s visual document. Lewis Hine, the now-famous photographer for the NCLC, arrives to document conditions and ends up befriending Miss Lesley, Grace and her friend Arthur. Then Miss Lesley, her teacher, conspires to contact the National Child Labor Committee about the hiring of underage children in the mills. Twelve-year-old Grace is proud to be one of the best readers at school, but she’s pulled out to be a doffer at the mill, her parents happy to have the extra money coming in.
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