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.