A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32
by:
Joan W. Blos (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780689829918 (0689829914)
Publish date: June 1st 1999
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Pages no: 144
Edition language: English
Written in the form of a journal, this book is the story of a year in the life of a fourteen year old girl living in New England in the early 1830’s. During the year, Catherine helps a runaway slave, loses her best friend, sees her widowed father remarry, and leaves her farm forever. There is someth...
Understated and affecting story of a young girl in New England, and the two years during which she went from being a heedless girl to being nearly a woman grown. Historical detail is rich in this book.
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