Genre: Historical Fiction
Grade Level: 6-9
Summary: Lyddie is a young girl who works at an Inn to pay off farm debts. She becomes one of many factory girls working long hours in dangerous and unsafe working conditions. Living in cramped conditions, Lyddie finds herself becoming friends with her peers and with a controversial worker named Diana, one of the few workers attempting to change the working conditions. Lyddie struggles to pay off the farm debt and watching her friend go through the horrible working conditions.
Theme/Skill: Families, friends, and enemies
Pre-reading activities: Talk about the Industrial Revolution and how our country has changed from predominately farming to a factory based industry.
Post-reading activities: Students can put themselves in the shoes of a factory worker at their same age. Compare and contrast Lyddie's life to their own lives.
Assessment: Hand in Venn Diagram with an essay.
Paterson, Katherine. (1992). Lyddie. New York: Puffin Books. 183 pp.
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