A Gathering of Days
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The journal of a 14-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend.
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This is very Little Women-esque. Quick read, kind of short on plot and meanders, but it is written as a journal and life doesn't always make much sense in a linear way.
Written in the form of a journal, this book is the story of a year in the life of a fourteen year old girl living in New England in the early 1830's. During the year, Catherine helps a runaway slave, loses her best friend, sees her widowed father remarry, and leaves her farm forever.
There is something about a book written as a journal that draws the reader close to the characters. I had just started this book when a fifth grader came into the library and asked if I could find her a book like A Gathering of Days. She loved it and wanted to read more books like it.
