Her condition worsens over the next nine days, and she dies in her sleep on August 20, 1831. In the summer of 1831, Cassie is suddenly struck with a high fever. She has three brothers: David Horatio (two years older), Asa Hale (Catherine's age), and William Mason, the baby. She is a year older than Catherine, fourteen, but the girls are the same height. They all figured out how to be a family and Catherine learns to love her new stepmom.Ĭassie is Catherine's best friend. Her father remarried in May 1831, and his wife, a widow, brought her own son to live with them, Daniel. Her mother died four years before the journal takes place.
Her best friend is Cassie, who dies during the course of the journal.Ĭatherine has a younger sister, Matty.
Catherine Hall Ĭatherine, called Cath by her friends, is thirteen at the start of the book, and has a birthday in May, so for most of the journal she is thirteen. These include her assistance to an escaped slave, her father's remarriage, and the sudden death of her best friend. Among the events of these two years are several that would have a profound impact on the rest of her life.
The journal details her daily life between the years of 18. The book is written in the form of a journal kept by Catherine Hall, a young girl living in a rural village in New England with her widower father and younger sister. A Gathering of Days A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32 (1979) is a historical novel by Joan Blos that won the 1980 National Book Award for Children's Books (hardcover) Īnd the 1980 Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature.
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