![]() Her father, Charles, is a widower, as her mother died giving birth to a baby boy that didn't survive. Her diary includes several aspects of her daily life, including events that happened at school, recipes, jokes, and family stories. Catherine Hall explains that the journal was brought back from Boston to her home in Meredith, New Hampshire, as a gift from her father. It was her last year on her family's farm, the year her father remarried, and the year she lost her best friend. ![]() The story opens with a letter to Catherine from her great-grandmother, Catherine Hall Onesti, explaining that she is giving her the journal that she received on her fourteenth birthday. Atheneum Books first published the novel for young readers in 1979. ![]() The journal, which records a single, tumultuous year in Catherine's life, has been passed down to her great-granddaughter and namesake. ![]() Blos features the fictional journal of Catherine, a young girl living in New England before the Civil War. ![]()
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