Phebe Fairchild Her Book

by Lois Lenski

Hardcover, 2020

Status

Available

Call number

HF1830

Series

Historical Novels - Lenski (1)

Tags

Connecticut fiction, Puritans fiction, family life fiction, books and reading fiction, HF1830

Genres

Publication

Purple House Press (2020), 316 pages

Description

While her parents take a long sea voyage in 1830, ten-year-old Phebe Fairchild lives in the Connecticut countryside with her father's family, Puritans who even forbid reading her treasured Mother Goose book.

User reviews

LibraryThing member electrascaife
A sweet-enough story of a young girl sent to live with country relatives while her seafaring father takes her mother on a trip to Europe. These country relatives are quite a bit more puritan than her own parents, and it takes a bit of adjusting for her to feel that she fits in.
Cute, but not
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 anything extraordinary.
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Awards

Newbery Medal (Honor Book — 1937)

Language

English

Original publication date

1936

ISBN

9781948959186

Barcode

9213

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