Lowry, Lois.

Like the willow tree : the diary of Lydia Amelia Pierce / Lois Lowry. - 1st ed. - New York : Scholastic, 2011. - 216 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm. - Dear America . - Dear America book. .

Wilson's Children, September 2011 Wilson's Junior High School, September 2011 School Library Journal, February 2011 Booklist, December 2010 Kirkus Review, December 2010

After being orphaned during the influenza epidemic of 1918, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her fourteen-year-old brother are taken by their grieving uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake. Includes author's note about the Shakers.

4.8. 5-8 Follett Library Resources.



0545144698

2010013369


Orphans--Fiction.
Shakers--Fiction.
Diaries--Fiction.
Historical fiction.


Maine--History--Fiction.


Historical fiction.

PZ7.L9673 / Li 2011

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