A Gathering of Days

Name: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32
ISBN: 9780689829918

A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32

Joan W. Blos

1979·144 pages·children

Historical Fiction

class and inequality classics epistolary family dynamics family secrets grief and loss

★ National Book Award (1980) · Winner ★ Newbery Medal (1980) · Winner

“sure to touch all who read it”
— unnamed marketing copy

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 triumphs. Even as she struggles with her mother’s death and father’s eventual remarriage, Catherine’s indomitable spirit makes this saga an oftentimes uplifting and joyous one.

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