The Shakeress

By Kimberley Burton Heuston

Subjects: Self-realization, New england, fiction, Spirituality, Shakers, Mormons, Mormons and mormonism, fiction, Orphans, fiction, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Mormons, fiction, Children's fiction, Orphans, New England, Juvenile fiction, History

Description: While searching for her true self and for the way to meet the needs of her personal sense of spirituality, an orphaned teenaged girl joins a Shaker community in mid-nineteenth century New England and learns about a new religion called Mormonism.