After being orphaned during the influenza epidemic of 1918, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her fourteen-year-old brother are taken by their grieving uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake. Includes author's note about the Shakers.
year: 2011
call number/section: 1000, 6
subjects: shakers, orphans, diaries, fiction, maine, history, 20th century, fiction