Historical fiction for older school-age children about child factory workers in 1910 in a Vermont cotton factory, and about the real photographer/journalist Lewis Hines, who lied his way into such factories to photograph child workers and publish a report that was instrumental in getting such child labor abolished. Grace and her friend Arthur are each 12 when they are forced to leave the school (where they are outstanding students) in the company town where they live, and go to work with their mothers in the factory for 12 hours a day. A piece of history not often dealt with in books for children, and very well written as well.

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