Sarah, Plain and Tall
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Author
MacLachlan, Patricia
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MacLachlan, Patricia Author
Published
HarperCollins , 2013.
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Newbery Medal Award Winners
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Description

This beloved Newbery Medal–winning book is the first of five books in Patricia MacLachlan's chapter book series about the Witting family.

Set in the late nineteenth century and told from young Anna's point of view, Sarah, Plain and Tall tells the story of how Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton comes from Maine to the prairie to answer Papa's advertisement for a wife and mother. Before Sarah arrives, Anna and her younger brother Caleb wait and wonder. Will Sarah be nice? Will she sing? Will she stay?

This children's literature classic is perfect for fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie books, historical fiction, and timeless stories using rich and beautiful language, and it's a strong choice for independent reading. Sarah, Plain and Tall gently explores themes of abandonment, loss, and love. 

Read the rest of the Sarah books by Patricia MacLachlan: Skylark, Caleb’s Story, More Perfect than the Moon, and Grandfather’s Dance.

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Format
eBook, Kindle
Street Date
06/25/2013
Language
English
ISBN
9780062285768
Subjects
Classic Literature
Juvenile Fiction
Juvenile Literature

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Published Reviews

Booklist Review

Anna and Caleb welcome their father's mail-order bride, Sarah, to their prairie family but worry that she will want to return East.

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Kirkus Book Review

A warming, delicately tuned story set in an unspecified rural American past, about a motherless farm family and the woman who comes from Maine for a trial visit after Papa advertises for a wife. Even before she arrives, Sarah wins Anna and Caleb with her brusque but touching letters. (""Tell them I sing,"" she writes to Papa in answer to their question. We already know that Papa hasn't sung since Mama died, when Caleb was born.) Sarah learns to plow and teaches the others, even Papa, to play. She also talks about the colors of the sea, which she had to leave when her fisherman brother married and his wife took over the house in Maine. Anna and Caleb know that Sarah misses the sea, and they hang on every hint that she might stay. She does, of course, to everyone's satisfaction. JLG. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

MacLachlan, P. (2013). Sarah, Plain and Tall . HarperCollins.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

MacLachlan, Patricia. 2013. Sarah, Plain and Tall. HarperCollins.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

MacLachlan, Patricia. Sarah, Plain and Tall HarperCollins, 2013.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

MacLachlan, P. (2013). Sarah, plain and tall. HarperCollins.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

MacLachlan, Patricia. Sarah, Plain and Tall HarperCollins, 2013.

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