Wednesday, November 18, 2009

A Gathering of Days by Joan W. Blos


1979 Newbery Medal

The journal of a fourteen-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.

Comments below by: Cassie N., 3rd grade

1 comment:

Nebbie Library said...

It was my favorite book ever. It's confusing about the chair in the end. She must have been excited about the baby. It was weird when I found out I died on the first page [my name is the same as her best friend's].

It was such a good book

4 stars

by Cassie N., 3rd grade