After being orphaned during the influenza epidemic of 1918, 11-year-old Lydia Pierce and her 14-year-old brother are taken by their grieving uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake, where Lydia struggles to learn a new lifestyle.

"When the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 strikes, one girl's whole world changes ..."--Cover. "With a special, new introduction from the author"--Cover. Originally published in hardcover with the subtitle 'The diary of Lydia Amelia Pierce' : New York : Scholastic Inc., 2011.