num_pages: 176
description: In this novel set in 1854, two young members of a Shaker community -- a religious sect that believes in total celibacy and rigidly separate lives for men and women -- meet, and although they to deny their growing feelings, fall in love. Will Sarah and Abel have to leave the only home they've ever known in order to be together? 
language: English
title: The Gift of Sarah Barker
titlecomplete: The Gift of Sarah Barker
genres: Historical, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 71
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award
publisher: Puffin Books