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A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-1832 (published in 1979 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers republished in 1990 by Aladdin Paperbacks, a division of Simon and Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York City, NY 10020). No other compensation has been received for the reviews posted on Home School Book Review.įor more information e-mail Joan W. (1=nothing objectionable 2=common euphemisms and/or childish slang terms 3=some cursing or profanity 4=a lot of cursing or profanity 5=obscenity and/or vulgarity)ĭisclosure: Any books donated for review purposes are in turn donated to a library. Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks, republished in 1990 And a clever, observant girl learns about herself, the meaning of right and wrong, trust and acceptance, laughter and tears.įilled with historical details of home, school, labor, and folklore in the early 19th century, this is also a delicate and gently persuasive story that may win its way into your heart.Book: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-1832

Juvenile romance blooms–and some of the more mature kind, too. Purchase here A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-32įramed by letters in which a great-grandmother in 1899 hands over her girlish diary to her thirteen-year-old namesake, this 1980 Newbery Medal winner takes the form of the diary of Catherine Hall, a New Hampshire farm girl in a time of simple, hard country life, growing controversy over the issue of slavery, and changes in her circle of family and friends.ĭuring the year and a half or so of the journal, Catherine records a crisis of morals brought about by a runaway slave’s plea for help the difficult adjustment to having a new stepmother and stepbrother the grief of losing someone near and dear and beneath all, the year’s round of farm work, weather, nature, and school.