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A Gathering of Days
A Gathering of Days
Author: Joan W. Blos
I, Catherine Cabot Hall, aged 13 years, 6 months, 29 days...do begin this book. So begins the journal of a girl coming of age in nineteenth-century New Hampshire. Catherine records both the hardships of pioneer life and its many joys. Even as she struggles with her mother's death and her father's eventual remarriage, Catherine's indomitable spir...  more »
ISBN: 442743
Publication Date: 1990
Pages: 144
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Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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Unabridged -- 3 Cassettes/3.75 hours -- Narrated by Cynthia Maurice

Winner of The Newbery Medal, 1980

The American Book Award (Children's Books), 1980

Catherine's mother has died, following the birth of an infant son, and when her father decides to remarry, Catherine faces painful changes, not the least of them in herself.

A provocative story for our times, carved from the granite of New England traditions, told in the form of a journal kept by Catherine Hall


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