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Amelia Bedelia

author: Parish, Peggy
It's time to hit the books! This five-book boxed set features a Velcro-tabbed cover and an easy-to-carry handle, and contains the original and bestselling 'Amelia Bedelia,' as well as four additional Level 2 I Can Read! stories.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 273
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 140

Leaving The Bellweathers

author: Venuti, Kristin Clark
In Eel-Smack-by-the-Bay, put-upon butler Tristan Benway writes a memoir of his years spent working for the chaotic and eccentric Bellweather family in their lighthouse, as he prepares for his long-awaited departure from indentured servitude.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: household employees [X], eccentrics and eccentricities, families [X], authorship, lighthouses

Beneath My Mother's Feet

author: Qamar, Amjed
When her father is injured, fourteen-year-old Nazia is pulled away from school, her friends, and her preparations for an arranged marriage, to help her mother clean houses in a wealthy part of Karachi, Pakistan, where she finally rebels against the destiny that is planned for her.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 27
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770

Crossing The Tracks

author: Stuber, Barbara
In Missouri in 1926, fifteen-year-old Iris Baldwin discovers what family truly means when her father hires her out for the summer as a companion to a country doctor's invalid mother.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 20
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
subjects: household employees [X], family, missouri, families [X], family life, historical fiction, historical fiction

The Goodbye Season

author: Hale, Marian
In Canton, Texas, seventeen-year-old Mercy's dreams of a different life than her mother's are postponed by harsh circumstances, including the influenza epidemic of 1918-19, which forces her into doing domestic work for a loving, if troubled, family.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850
subjects: families [X], household employees [X], mothers and daughters, grief, coming of age, texas

A Thousand Questions

author: Faruqi, Saadia
Told in two voices, eleven-year-olds Mimi, who is visiting her wealthy grandparents in Karachi, Pakistan, for the first time and Sakina, daughter of the grandparents' cook, form an unexpected friendship.
FIC
year:
copies: 20
call number/section: FIC
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The Housemaid's Secret.(the Housemaid #2)

author: Mcfadden, Freida
It's hard to find an employer who doesn't ask too many questions about my past.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
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