The back bench : a novel

by Margaret Hope Bacon

Other authorsJ. C. Wild (Cover artist), John Lewis Kimmel (Cover artist)
Paperback, 2007

Status

Available

Call number

J FIC BAC

Tags

19th century Quakers, historical fiction, young adult fiction, Pennsylvania, America, Philadelphia

Collections

Your library, J - Children/JYFs

Publication

Philadelphia, Pa. : Quaker Press of Friends General Conference, 2007.

Subjects

Family life Pennsylvania Fiction
Grief Fiction
Moving, household Fiction
Philadelphia (Pa.) History 19th century Fiction
Quakers Fiction

ISBN

9781888305494

Description

Fourteen-year-old Myra, a Hicksite Quaker, chronicles the year she spends with her Orthodox Quaker aunt and uncle trying to adjust to the loss of her mother.

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J FIC BAC

Barcode

5170

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