Winter Shaker Author:Louise Ulmer Life was hard enough for Daisy Webb since Mama died and Papa went to fight in Mr. Lincoln's army. But then Aunt Paratine sold her lovely Victorian home to move in with the strangest bunch you ever heard of. The "Shaking Quakers" or just plain "Shakers" as they are called, don't worship anything like the Presbyterian church Daisy is used to. Wors... more »t yet, she and Ezra have to live there, even if Aunt Paratine dies, which she keeps saying might happen. Fortunately, the Shakers are famous for their herbs and natural healing. The Civil War goes on, Papa never writes her anymore, and Daisy tries to adjust to "work and pray, pray and work." It's not a bad place, Daisy says, unless you like to think for yourself! The Shakers don't even know how to have Christmas. If she can just get through this one winter, Daisy tells herself, she can run away, back to her old life in Lexington. But can she? Something about the gentle Shakers tugs at her heart.« less