Cover of Like the willow tree

Like the willow tree

the diary of Lydia Amelia Pierce

by Lois Lowry

2011 eng

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.

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