Kids Book Club + Craft with Samantha: "Lyddie" by Newbury Award Winning Katherine Paterson
Sun, Mar 02
|Mather Homestead Barn
Samantha will lead an educational, interactive and fun discussion of "Lyddie". It tells the story of a nineteenth century girl and her brother who are hired out as servants to pay their family farm's debts. Lyddie is recommended for ages 8 to 12, grades 3 to 7.
Time & Location
Mar 02, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Mather Homestead Barn, 19 Stephen Mather Rd, Darien, CT 06820, USA
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About the event
Set in the 19th century, Lyddie and her younger brother are hired out as servants to help pay off their family farm's debts. Lyddie is determined to find a way to reunite her family once again. Hearing about all the money a girl can make working in the textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, she makes her way there, only to find that her dreams of returning home may never come true. It's a story of determination and personal growth.
Katherine Paterson is the author of more than 40 books, including 18 novels for children and young people. She has twice won the Newbery Medal, for Bridge to Terabithia in 1978 and Jacob Have I Loved in 1981. The Master Puppeteer won the National Book Award in 1977 and The Great Gilly Hopkins won the National Book Award in 1979 and was also a Newbery Honor Book. For the body of her work she received the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1998, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2006, and in 2000 was named a Living Legend by the Library of Congress.
A career educator, Samantha taught high school English at Greenwich Academy for eight years and at The Dalton School for five. She currently teaches ninth grade English at New Canaan Country School. Samantha holds a Bachelor's in English from Dartmouth College and a Master's in English from Middlebury, with a specialty in poetry and American and modern literature. Samantha and her family live in Darien.