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Helen wants to contribute to the war effort after the United States goes to war in 1917--so she joins the Women's Land Army of America, an organization that trains women to do farm work, replacing the workers drafted into the army. Story is based on a real-life farmerette, a college girl who was trained at the Women's Agricultural Camp in Bedford, New York. The endpapers display WWI Woman's Land Army posters and photos of real farmerettes. Agricultural laborers- Fiction. AR 3.9 RC 3.4 Lexile 600 IL 1-4. | |