Paterson, Katherine. Lyddie Katherine Paterson. - New York, N.Y. : Puffin Books, 1992, c1991. - 182 p. ; 18 cm. Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s. 860 Lexile. ISBN: 0140349812 0140373896 LCCN: 92020304 /AC Subjects--Topical Terms: Self-reliance--Fiction.Work--Fiction.Factories--Fiction.Textile workers--Fiction. Subjects--Geographic Terms: Lowell (Mass.)--Fiction. Index Terms--Genre/Form: Historical fiction.