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.
year: 2020
call number/section: 1000
subjects: orphans, fiction, shakers, diaries, maine, history, fiction, diary fiction, historical fiction