Snedeker, Caroline Dale, 1871-1956.

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.

PZ7.S67 / Do 2003