A Gathering of Days-Joan W. Blos

I just read A Gathering of Days. What and amazing book! Set in the early nineteenth century, this book is about a girl growing up in New England and how she goes through many of lifes hardships for example her father remarrying, her friend and stepbrother in love, and just going through day to day life without a mother. She also has some more exciting adventures, such as notes in her speller from a unknown person. Follow Catherine and her friends on their journey through the key years of young teenhood, in a novel of discovering self, and taking life one day at a time. An excellent book.