Downright Dencey /
Caroline Dale Snedeker ; illustrations by Maginel Wright Barney.
- Bathgate, N.D. : San Francisco : Bethlehem Books ; Ignatius Press, c2003.
- 268 p.: ill. ; 22 cm.
"Young adult bookshelf"--Cover p. [4].
On Nantucket Island in the years following the War of 1812, Dionis "Dencey" Coffyn, a young girl from a respected Quaker family, befriends a penniless orphan boy, and together they learn about responsibility and love.
12-up.
Newbery Honor Book, 1928
1883937795
2003105078
Quakers--Fiction. Christian life--Fiction. Conduct of life--Fiction. Orphans--Fiction. Family life--Fiction. Islands--Fiction.
Nantucket Island (Mass.)--History--19th century--Fiction.