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Sarah, Plain and Tall (Newbery Medal Winner)
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A tender story written with gorgeous lyrical prose that will warm the heart of young readers. It’s the story of a new wife and mother and the family she enters into. It won the Newbery for a reason!
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?
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