Title: The Shakeress
First published: 2002
Description: While searching for her true self and for the way to meet the needs of her personal sense of spirituality, an orphaned teenaged girl joins a Shaker community in mid-nineteenth century New England and learns about a new religion called Mormonism.
Subjects: Self-realization, Juvenile fiction, New England, Fiction, Mormons, Spirituality, Shakers, Orphans, History, New York Times reviewed, Children's fiction, Mormons and mormonism, fiction, Orphans, fiction, New england, fiction, Mormons, fiction
Places: New England
Time periods: 19th century