The Tamarack Tree

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971. 230 pages: illustrations; 22 cm. Fine in fine(-) jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 03951267100395127610; 9780395127612

A very nice copy. "Community reaction toward a local school for black girls in 1833 makes a fourteen-year-old white orphan re-examine her feelings toward higher education, abolition, blacks, and the meaning of womanhood"

Prejudices -- Juvenile fiction. Women -- Education -- Fiction. Prejudices -- Fiction. Femmes -- Éducation -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse. Préjugés -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse. Prejudices. Women -- Education. Historical fiction. Fictional Work Fiction. Juvenile works. Historical fiction. Novels. Romans. General Info: Awards: Jane Addams Award 1972