Reviews for Sarah, plain and tall
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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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Gr. 3-5. In a simple story evoking a strong sense of family, Sarah answers Jacob Witting's ad for a mail-order bride and agrees to a trial visit on his frontier farm. Jacob's children hope Sarah will stay, though she misses her Maine home on the sea.
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Gr. 3-5. In a near-perfect miniature novel, two children experience the apprehensions and joys of the possibility of a new mother, when their father invites a mail-order bride to their prairie home.
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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 ŠKirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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Gr. 3^-5. Two children experience apprehension and joy at the possibility of having a new mother when their father invites a mail-order bride to their prairie home.
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Papa's mail-order bride arrives, and Caleb and Anna hope she will make the prairie her home despite her homesickness for Maine.
