Like the Willow Tree

Like the Willow TreeLike the Willow Tree by Lois Lowry
Published by Scholastic Inc. on September 1, 2020
ISBN: 1338724320
Pages: 224
Genres: Historical Fiction
Format: Chapter Book Fiction
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four-stars

A very timely update for this entry in the Dear America series. Lydia and her brother are orphaned suddenly when their parents and baby sister die of the Spanish Flu in Portland, Maine. After a brief stay with their Uncle and his family, they end up with the Shaker community in Sabbathday Lake, Maine.

Reviewed by Karen Sandlin Silverman, Mt. Ararat Middle School, Topsham

four-stars