- Diaries, Newbery Medal, Juvenile fiction, Diaries in fiction
The journal of a 14-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.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and contemplative.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Joan W. Blos
- First published
- 1979
- Pages
- 144
- Publisher
- Amer School Pub, Atheneum, Scribner
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780684163406
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“I, Catherine Cabot Hall, aged 13 years, 6 months, 29 days, of Meredith in the State of New-Hampshire, do begin this book.”
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