Tillie Getz works long days in her harsh father’s celery beds and is whipped for reading a story-book, but she adores her schoolteacher, Miss Margaret, and longs to become educated. With help from the kindly country doctor and the Wackernagel family, she struggles against her father’s tyranny and the strict ways of her community.
A popular 1904 novel, rich in Pennsylvania Dutch dialect, about a girl’s fight for education and self-respect. Download the free EPUB.