by Katherine Paterson · Espasa Calpe · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423988662
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«Lyddie» is the young adult novel by Katherine Paterson, published by Espasa Calpe in paperback in Spanish.
In nineteenth-century United States, Lyddie is sent to work to pay off her family farm's debts. After serving as a maid, Lyddie moves to the textile mills of Lowell; there she will experience hard work and solidarity among the female workers, while trying to reunite her family.
Katherine Paterson has won two Newbery Medals. «Lyddie» was originally published in 1991 and was nominated for the Vermont Golden Dome Book Award in 1993. Lyddie belongs to the Espasa Juvenil collection.
A suitable read for young people and secondary school students, with an interest in historical fiction and stories of personal overcoming.
Katherine Paterson is an American writer best known for children's novels, including Bridge to Terabithia (1977), which won the Newbery Medal in 1978. For four different books published 1975–1980, she won two Newbery Medals and two National Book Awards. She is one of four people to win the two major international awards; for "lasting contribution to children's literature" she won the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing in 1998 and for her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" she won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council in 2006, the biggest monetary prize in children's literature. Also for her body of work she was awarded the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature in 2007 and the Children's Literature Legacy Award from the American Library Association in 2013. She was the second US National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, serving 2010 and 2011.
