Like the
Willow Tree
The Diary
of Lydia Amelia Pierce
Lois
Lowry
Here I am writing a second book
report on a “Dear America” book. I’m not going to write much about this book,
because it’s very hard to explain – you have to read it yourself!
I will say that Lydia is a young
girl growing up with her family – mom, dad, older brother, and baby sister.
Even though this is very hard to write (And I think it was hard for Lowry to
write it too (This is very sad, so if you cry a lot go get a tissue, I’ll wait.)
her whole family except her brother dies.
So, she is sent to live with her
uncle without taking anything with
her. But, it seems her uncle doesn’t like her very much because soon he gets
rid of her. She is sent to live with a group called the Shakers (like the
Amish) so they can take care of her until she is old enough to live by herself.
At first she doesn’t want to get
used to the Shaker way of life – she doesn’t want to give her favorite and only
book to the shelf that Sister Jenny reads from, she doesn’t want to give up her
ring – which had once been her grandmother’s and was the only thing she had to
remind her of her family. She also can’t get used to the fact that boys and
girls are separate from each other, so she can’t see her brother.
But later she makes friends and
they allow her to have a meeting with her brother. In other words she gets used
to it and accepts it.
In the Epilogue it says she was
going to stay with the Shakers but, changed her mind after she went to college
and fell in love, since Shakers can’t get married she quit the Shaker way of
life.
B.T.W. (by the way) When Lydia left
the Shakers Sister Jenny gave Lydia back her grandmother’s ring.
You really should
read the book it will get into your heart just like “A Time for Courage”.
And that’s another Bookworm Promise :)!
