Title: Like the willow tree
Subtitle: the diary of Lydia Amelia Pierce
Description: 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: Diaries, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Shakers, History, Orphans, Historical fiction, Children's fiction, Orphans, fiction, Diaries, fiction, Maine, fiction
Places: Maine
Time periods: 20th century