Like the Willow Tree : The Diary of Lydia Amelia Pierce
Lois Lowry.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Scholastic, 2011.
- 216 p. : photos ; 20 cm.
- Dear America .
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.