domestics

A young Indian woman tells her life story, describing her abandonment by her mother, beatings from her father, marriage at the age of twelve to an abusive older man, and struggle to survive and raise three children alone after leaving her husband, and explains how her work as a maid for a retired anthropology professor led to her learning to read and write and becoming an author.

A graphic novel based on Lewis Carroll's classic stories and follows the White Rabbit's housemaid, Mary Ann, on her nonsensical adventures in Wonderland.

Fourteen-year-old Hannah, an orphan indentured to the family of a British general in Boston in 1775, begins attending secret meetings diguised as a boy, then passing messages and warnings to the revolutionaries using her beloved horse, Promise.

In Boston in 1775, orphaned fourteen-year-old Hannah is indentured to the family of a British general and begins attending secret meetings disguised as a boy, then passing messages and warnings to the revolutionaries using her beloved horse Promise.

Uses humor in both text and illustrations to describe the life and duties of a young Victorian servant.