A Gathering of Days
by Joan W. Blos
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A year in the life of a 13-year-old girl in 19th-century New England. Catherine Cabot Hall begins her diary in 1830, a few years after the death of her mother. She relates her life on a the family farm where she lives with her father and her sister. As the year passes, Catherine encounters both happiness and sorrows as well as events that will change her life forever. Winner of the 1980 Newbery Medal.
Editions of A Gathering of Days
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Publisher Aladdin Books |
Date 1987 |
Price $1.00 |
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Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School |
Date 1995 |
Price $1.00 |
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Publisher Simon & Schuster |
Date 1999 |
Price $1.00 |
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Publisher Sra |
Date 1988 |
Price $109.46 |
Very Good |
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Publisher Atheneum |
Date 1979 |
Price $1.00 |
Good |
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Publisher Bt Bound |
Date 1999 |
Price $3.99 |
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Publisher Atheneum |
Date 1990 |
Price $1.00 |
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Publisher Notes
This novel, written in diary form, tells of "a pivotal year for 19th-century New Englander Catherine Cabot Hill--one of change, loss, and leave taking . . . a low-key, intense and reflective book".--"School Library Journal", starred review. 1980 Newbery Award book.
Synopses
The journal of a fourteen-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.
First Line
To my namesake, Catherine: I give you this book on your fourteenth birthday, as I turned fourteen the year of the journal; the year that was also my last on the farm tho' I did not know it then.
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