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Blos, Joan
A GATHERING OF DAYS : A NEW ENGLAND GIRL'S JOURNAL, 1830-1832.
New York : Aladdin Books, 1979.
IL 5-8 RL 6.9 .
ISBN 0689829914

Borreguita is a little girl Catherine Hall is a thirteen year old girl living on a farm in New Hampshire. Life is lived day to day and Catherine offers us a chance to share her everyday life by way of her journal. She writes of maple sugaring, quilting, planting and school. She tells of the death of her mother and her father's remarriage. If you are interested in what life was like for a young girl during this time period, this is definitely the book for you.

SUBJECTS:      New Hampshire -- Fiction
                        Diaries -- Fiction


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