Like The Willow Tree

I just finished the book I was reading called Like The Willow Tree by Lois Lowry and it is on the Iowa children's choice award list for 2012 and 2013 It is a Dear America book and it is the diary of Lydia Amelia Peirce she is fictional but she is writing her diary in the time of 1918 when the spanish influenza rages across europe some background on the influenza is kinda like the flu and so that is spreading around the country and her mom,dad,and little sister from the influenza so her and her older brother are sent to live with their uncle and aunt her aunt is not nice and wants them gone so their uncle brings them to a special farm called the shaker farm on sabathy lake a religous family called the shakers started the farm and they are very religous and have very specific rules and when they first get there they have a ton of surprises including lydias brother runing away read to find out if she will ajust to the rules and if daniel returns!