Like the willow tree
the diary of Lydia Amelia Pierce
About this book
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.
Subjects
- children's fiction
- diaries
- diaries, fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- history
- juvenile fiction
- maine, fiction
- orphans
- orphans, fiction
- shakers