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    <body><![CDATA[lyddie sucked, dont bother readin it. so gay.its about working on a loom. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Spivak may i ask where the romance in this is?]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Katherine Paterson is masterful in creating vividly real characterization in this book.  It seems that the reader knows Lyddie personally.  Far from being perfect, Lyddie is tough, ambitious, independent and knows how to work.  After fighting off a bear, Lyddie is orphaned and then separated from he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74944620">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Aimed at middle school readers, but with romance and more young adult conflicts, the novel is suitable for high school readers. The novel, set in New England in the early 1800’s, illustrates the effects of  the Industrial Revolution.   Lyddie’s family has only their farm, which is not producing ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70754556">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this book in a way was a little posessed. I thought it was posessed because the way the head keeper tried to rape the teenage girls and then when his boss found out he denied it and got Lyddie fired. Other than that though this book was okay. I really loved the deatail. How the author desc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80560984">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Historically interesting, but rather prurient book about nasty mill owners groping pubescent female mill workers.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book is worse than my truck tires(they are totally dry rotted)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Love Katherine Paterson, but this wasn't my favorite.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was really a 3 1/2 star book for me. <br/><br/>Pros: This book was refreshingly gritty for a young adult book, especially in terms of Lyddie's own shortcomings. I really enjoyed the how Lyddie was reading &quot;Oliver Twist&quot; in the book and elements of her own life were mirrored there.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59126099">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I chose this book to read because I am chaperoning a trip for my daughter's 7th grade trip to Boston.  One of the places we are to visit is Lowell, MA where the mills of 1840 are located that are mentioned in this book.  Even though it was written for children it was a very inspiring story for all t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55167020">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've loved Paterson's books ever since I was a kid.  This one told the story of Lyddie, a tough, independent girl from Vermont sometime in the 1800's.  They're just barely surviving on the family farm after the father abandoned them.  The mother takes the babies and goes to her brother's, leaving Ly...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25386161">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[From this book, I learned much about the working conditions for &quot;factory girls&quot; working in the mills of Vermont in the late 1840's.  Lyddie is a poor farm girl, sent to work as a servant in an inn at age 14 to pay off her parents' debts on their farm.  She encounters a beautiful young woma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27794797">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, I must say.  The first 5 chapters at least are quite tedious.  Not altogether but quite.  Perhaps it will pick up.  <br/><br/>Setting: Vermont<br/><br/>Lydia understands that working for the Cutlers, she is a slave almost as much as Ezekiel is.  One of the differences though is that there ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74674993">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i've always been interested in the stories of the children workers in the factories. a sad part of this country's history. an important story.  this is sympathetic and gives light to the sad struggle of children to survive while enagaging the reader with a decent story and likeable, intellegent fema...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65254550">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Even though it's been a long time since I read the book I rember that it took a while to get into the story since it started off with Lyddie's every day life (which was really boring) but it was really good once it got going and I was sad that Lyddie was put out of a job cuz she was good @ it ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved it! I've been aware of Paterson's work for a long time now, but this is the first of her books that I've read. It's been a good long while since I enjoyed historical fiction, but this one is a real winner. Will definitely be reading more of her stuff soon.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i acually liked this book! im surprised i did becuz i usually like realistic fiction, levey dubby stories or fantasy! but i learned a LOT! it was very detailed and very good! i really liked it! we also went 2 the mills so i got a full experience!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Never been a fan of this type of novel, but Lyddie is a surprisingly interesting read, and the accurate descriptions of the working conditions in the factories were fascinating. Definitely one of the better books in the syllabus.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked the plot and the timesetting was interesting, but Lyddie, the main character, was sooooo boring! I did not care about her at all! It would've been a better book if the main character wasn't such a snore.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had the misfortune to read this book for school and found that while I liked the character Lyddie for her hard work ethic and perseverance I found the plot generally dull and petty.]]></body>
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