Dear America series
Summary: 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.
Scholastic
Filed under: 2011-2012 Club, Not Mock Newbery Tagged: | 2011, diaries, historical fiction, orphans, Shakers
This is a well writen book. I recomend it for girls in late elementry and early middle school. This is not a Newbery book.