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1910. Pownal, Vermont. At 12, Grace and her best friend Arthur must leave school and go to work as a “doffers” on their mothers’ looms in the mill. Grace’s mother is best worker, fast and powerful, and Grace desperately wants to help her. But she’s left handed and doffing is a right-handed job. Grace’s every mistake costs her mother, and the family. She only feels capable on Sundays, when she and Arthur receive special lessons from other teacher. Together they write a secret letter to the kid Labor Board about underage children working in Pownal. A couple weeks later a man with a camera shows up. It's the famous reformer Lewis Hine, undercover, collecting evidence for the kid Labor Board. Grace’s brief acquaintance with Hine and the photos he takes of her are a surprise that changes her sense of herself, her future, and her family’s future.
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