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A Gathering of Days
A Gathering of Days
Author: Joan W. Blos
Newbery Medal Winner, 1980. — Thirteen-year-old Catherine Cabot Hall put ink to the first unblemished page of her diary on October 17, 1830, the day after her father returned from Boston with the diary tucked conspicuously under his arm. Catherine's mother had died of fever four years before, and now Catherine performed the duties of housewife an...  more »
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ISBN: 511453
Pages: 144
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Publisher: Aladdin Books/Macmillan Publishing
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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