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A Gathering of Days
A Gathering of Days
Author: Joan W. Blos
The novel "A Gathering of Days" by Joan W. Blos is the fictional diary of a young girl living in a rural village in New England with her widower father and younger sister during the early nineteenth century. The journal details her daily pioneer life between the years of 1830 and 1832 when slaves still existed in the nation. The events described...  more »
ISBN: 476571
Publication Date: 1979
Pages: 145
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Publisher: Aladdin
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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